Alaiza Pashkevich (Tsiotka)

Alaiza Pashkevich, known as Tsiotka, was born on 15 July 1876 in the Vilna governorate. She studied in Vilnius and then in Saint Petersburg. An activist during the revolution of 1905, she helped launch a newspaper in Belarusian, then, pursued, went into exile in Galicia. Back in Vilnius, she devoted herself to popular theatre and to Belarusian-language schools, and in 1914 founded a children's magazine. She died in February 1916.

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• PoetryХрэст на свабодуAlaiza Pashkevich (Tsiotka) · 1906not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain