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Maksim Haretski

Died in 1938

Maksim Haretski was born on 18 February 1893 in Malaja Bahackaŭka, into a peasant family. A graduate of a school in Horki in 1913, he served in the Russian army during the Great War. Settled in Vilnius in 1919, he taught there at the Belarusian lyceum and worked for newspapers; arrested by the Polish authorities in 1922, he was sent to Soviet Belarus, where he taught language and literature. Arrested again in 1930, sentenced and sent to Vyatka, he was arrested one last time in 1937 and shot on 10 February 1938.

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