Maksim Bahdanovich

Maksim Bahdanovich was born on 9 December 1891 in Minsk. He lost his mother, carried off by tuberculosis, in early childhood, and his father, a bank clerk and ethnographer, took the children to Nizhny Novgorod, then to Yaroslavl, where the son studied at the Demidov Law Lyceum. Having himself contracted tuberculosis, he went to Vilnius in 1911, settled in Minsk in the autumn of 1916 and worked there for the provincial administration, helping war refugees. He died in Yalta on 25 May 1917, at the age of twenty-five.

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• PoetryВянокMaksim Bahdanovich · 1914not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain