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Petr Bezruč

Died in 1958

Vladimír Vašek, known as Petr Bezruč, was born on 15 September 1867 in Opava, the son of a secondary-school teacher, philologist and awakener of national consciousness in Silesia. A postal employee, he was posted in 1891 to Místek, where the poverty of the region left its mark on him, then returned to Brno in 1893. Accused in 1915 of having written two pro-Russian poems, in fact the work of another, he was arrested for high treason and detained, then recognised as innocent. National Artist in 1945, he lived in seclusion and died in February 1958, at the age of ninety.

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