The monument in its original form was designed by Lviv-Krakow sculptor Tadeusz Błotnicki. The statue was placed on a pedestal, made by Jan Bębnowicz , the owner of a stone-sculpting workshop in Stanislawow. The monument was placed in the square named after the bard. It was unveiled on 20 November 1898 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth . The act was performed by Paweł Bryła, a member of the organising committee and a secondary school teacher, in the presence of several thousand inhabitants.

On the same day, monuments to King John III in Lviv and Muravyov 'Vyacheslav' in Vilnius were unveiled in the Polish lands.

Mickiewicz chiseled by Błotnicki received wide recognition in the Galician press . "It is, indeed, such a beautiful work," wrote a correspondent of the "New Reform". - that one should wish all Polish cities (not excluding capital cities - editor's note) such a nice monument. The statue itself is made of Carrara marble of the second sort, and therefore of a somewhat blue colour, while the pedestal is made of Tarnopol shavings. The artist depicted the poet with his right hand on his chest and a beautiful head with a noble expression, slightly raised. The face is soulful and bright, majesty beaming from the whole figure. It seems that in this moment of ecstasy the bard is calling out to us: "I am a million!"'. The Daily Courier, in turn, noted that "The artist has imagined the poet at the age of his greatest creativity, i.e. between 30 and 40 years of age".

The monument measured more than 5 metres high. An inscription was placed on its pedestal:

ADAMOWI / MICKIEWICZ / on the 100th anniversary of his birth / OBJECTIVE / of the city of. Stanisławów / 1898 //.

Twenty years later , during the Polish-Ukrainian war (1918-1919), Ukrainian soldiers attempted to topple Mickiewicz from his pedestal. In due course, at the request of the Poles, the Secretary of Military Affairs of the West Ukrainian People's Republic, Dmytro Vitovsky , intervened , which stopped their intentions. However, earlier actions led to significant damage to the statue. Anyone passing by the statue could easily see that Mickiewicz had been stripped of his nose, and cavities were visible on his right leg.

Residents, but also visitors, greatly deplored the fact that "it still offends [him] by its appearance". It was, they wrote, scandalously neglected.

Eventually, steps were taken to restore the sculpture. Józef Malach , a teacher at the State School of Wood Industry, prepared a retouch and a copy of the Mickiewicz statue , which was cast in bronze at the Łopieński Brothers company in Warsaw. In turn, engineer Stanisław Trela, the city architect, designed a new pedestal, with a simple shape . The monument was handed over to the inhabitants in autumn 1930, without a ceremonial unveiling. It is worth mentioning at this point that it stood on Mickiewicz Square, in its new location, opposite the entrance to the Moniuszko Theatre.

An inscription was engraved on its pedestal:

ADAM MICKIEWICZ / MONUMENT FOUNDED / IN 1898 BY / CITIZENSHIP / STANISŁAWÓW / IN 1930 RENOVATED / BY THE CITY OF STANISŁAWÓW //.

Another difficult period in the history of the monument was during the years of World War II. The Germans wanted to melt down the statue. They took it off the pedestal and cut it in half. Parts of the monument were placed in a scrap metal depot. In 1943, a group of three Poles, led by Kazimierz Tatara , a pre-war sports activist, including a member of the Military-Civilian Sports Club "Rewera", hid the statue from being melted down by burying it in the ground near the scrap yard .

After the Soviets took power in Stanislawow in July 1944, the statue returned to its place. A plaque with the bard's name, written in Cyrillic characters, and the dates of his life was mounted on the lowered pedestal.

The statue, together with Mickiewicz Square, remains one of the landmarks of the modern city .