Yakub Kolas,
Jakub Kolas , real name Kanstantsin Mitskievich (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a
BelarusBelarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel , Mahilyow and Vitebsk...
ian writer, People's Poet of the
Byelorussian SSRThe Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union...
(1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
He wrote collections of poems
Songs of Captivity
(1908) and
Songs of Grief , poems
A New Land and
Simon the Musician , stories, and plays.
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Yakub Kolas,
Jakub Kolas , real name Kanstantsin Mitskievich (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a
BelarusBelarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel , Mahilyow and Vitebsk...
ian writer, People's Poet of the
Byelorussian SSRThe Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union...
(1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
He wrote collections of poems
Songs of Captivity
(1908) and
Songs of Grief , poems
A New Land and
Simon the Musician , stories, and plays. His poem
The Fisherman's Hut is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state. His trilogy
At a Crossroads
(1954) is about the pre-Revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia. He was awarded the
USSR State PrizeThe USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....
in 1946 and 1949.
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