ENThis paper concerns the matter of symbolic places in the poetry of the Polish-Tartar authors Selim Chazbijewicz and Musa Czachorowski. These poets’ work arose from the borderland experience and the meeting of cultures in the north east of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In their work we can observe deep historical roots, references to the nomadic Mongolian and Islamic Turkic cultures as well as an attempt to bridge the gap between the aesthetics of East and West.