TY - JOUR N2 - This article presents the concept of fate in the stories of the poet and literary sketches of twentieth-century Russian writer Jurij Dombrowski. The writer creates psychological portraits of Romantic poets, including George Byron, Alexander Gribojedov, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, focusing on selected episodes from their lives. In the article attempt is made to prove that the fate of the nineteenth-century artists serve as an excuse to explain the problems of contemporary author. Characteristics of historical fi gures are made through the prism of Dombrowski’s biography. The combination of biography and autobiography allows Dombrowski to present the subjective concept of the poet: a man condemned to loneliness and misunderstanding, confl icted with the epoch, trying to overcome the tragic dependence on historical conditions through art and creativity. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/112077/PDF/SO%202-19%206-M.Knurowska.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/112077 PY - 2019 IS - No 2 EP - 321 DO - 10.24425/slo.2019.128474 KW - Jurij Dombrowski KW - biographism KW - autobiographism KW - fate KW - poet KW - art A1 - Knurowska, Monika PB - Komitet Słowianoznawstwa PAN VL - vol. LXVIII DA - 2019.06.25 T1 - “And my fate has already been decided...”. Concept of the poet’s fate in stories and sketches of Jurij Dombrowski SP - 307 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/112077 T2 - Slavia Orientalis ER -