Museums Polish library of Paris on the Ile Saint-Louis may be in the highest degree interesting to the Russian tourist: their origin is connected with the name of Adam Czartoryski, the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire in the years 1804-1806. This was the "Alexander's days great start" for which he wrote Pushkin.

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, a Polish noble nobleman in the early nineteenth century was part of the "inner circle" of the young Emperor Alexander I and on the proposal of the king headed the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia. A brilliant career was stopped by the events in the University of Vilna Imperial guardian was Czartoryski – students created a secret society, Czartoryski was forced to resign. During the uprising of 1830, he was Chairman of the rebel government of Poland, after the defeat of the uprising he emigrated to France.

In Paris Czartoryski settled on the Ile Saint-Louis. He headed the Polish emigration and became a patron of the arts. In his huge mansion Lambert he settled almost all the major figures of Polish culture, who in exile had, of course, a difficult life. Here lived the Adam Mickiewicz and Frederic Chopin. In 1838 Czartoryski bought on the waterfront Orleans house to arrange a Polish library. Today in the library there are three small museums, two of which are directly related to the Russian culture.

The great Polish romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz lived in St. Petersburg and was a friend of Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Delvig, Boratynsky. His works were highly appreciated by all reading Russia. In the collection of the Museum named after him, collected manuscripts, documents, letters, portraits of the poet and publicist.

Composer and piano virtuoso Frederic Chopin before his departure to Western Europe lived in the Russian Empire, near Warsaw. In 1831 he settled in Paris, where he met the writer George sand – their affair lasted ten years. In Paris and passed the last days of the composer. In the cabin-the Chopin Museum presents the first editions of his scores, the seat belonged to him, a death mask and a cast of his left hand.

The third Museum library is a collection of paintings and sculptures by Polish surrealist painter of Boleslaw Bahasa who worked in the late XIX – early XX centuries. It also presents the works of other Polish artists, archives of Polish emigration.