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Tsishka Hartny

Died in 1937

Zmicier Zhylunovich, who wrote under the name Tsishka Hartny, was born on 13 October 1887 in Kapyl. A militant of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly, he published in Naša Niva from 1908. Having joined the Bolsheviks in October 1918, he chaired in 1919 the first government of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Belarus, then directed publishing houses and entered the Academy of Sciences in 1929. Expelled from the party in 1931 and arrested during the Great Terror, he died in detention in April 1937.

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