Author · Belarus
Yanka Kupala
Died in 1942
Ivan Lutsevich, who signed himself Yanka Kupala, was born on 7 July 1882 in Viazynka, near Maladziečna. A tutor and clerk, he published his first poem in 1905, worked in Vilnius for Naša Niva, which he edited in 1914 and 1915, and attended courses in Saint Petersburg and then at the Shaniavsky People's University in Moscow. Settled in Minsk from 1919, he joined the academies of sciences of Belarus and Ukraine. He died in Moscow on 28 June 1942, in tragic circumstances.
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- TheatreThe LocalsТутэйшыяYanka Kupala · 1924LiteraturePublic domain