The book, which is the result of cooperation between scientists from PR, BP, NRB, USSR, provides a typological analysis of the development of the culture of Central and Southeast Europe, its individual spheres - literature, painting, architecture, theater in the XVIII-XIX centuries.; cultural processes in the area are compared with Western European phenomena - Renaissance, Enlightenment, romanticism. The names of Chopin, Mickiewicz, Pushkin, Hoffmann, Petofi and others sound on the pages of the book. For historians, literary scholars, philologists, art historians.