Author · Belarus
Jan Barszczewski
Died in 1851
Jan Barszczewski was born at Murahi, in the Polotsk region, into a poor family of the lesser nobility; the year varies according to the sources, from 1781 to 1797. Educated at the Jesuit college of Polotsk, he settled in Saint Petersburg, where in the 1840s he brought out the almanac Niezabudka. His tales, written in Polish on a basis of Belarusian legends and beliefs, appeared in four volumes from 1844 to 1846. He spent his last years at Chudniv, in Ukraine, and died there in 1851.
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- TaleNobleman Zavalnia, or Belarus in Fantastical TalesSzlachcic ZawalniaJan Barszczewski · 1844Literature