Zmicier Zhylunovich
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Zmicier Khvedarovich Zhylunovich (Belarusian-lacinka: Źmicier Žyłunovič, Belarusian-Cyrillic alphabet: Зьміцер Жылуновіч, transliterated from Russian: "Dmitri Fyodorovich Zhilunovich") (October 13, 1887 – April 11, 1937) was a Belarusian poet, writer and journalist, known under pen name Tsishka Hartny (Ciška Hartny, Цішка Гартны), and a political leader.
In 1910 and 1911 he went to his hometown to Kapil and participated in the work of local organizations Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, in editions of pamphlets magazines.
He was the first head of a Soviet government in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.[1]
In 1924 he published a book "Slivers on the waves".
In 1937, during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, he was arrested as an "enemy of the Belarusian people" and committed suicide in prison.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Žyłunovič Źmicier", which cites the following sources: "Bieł. Sav. Enc., vol. 3, 1971, pp. 367–368; Ant.Adamovich. "Opposition to Sovietization..." N.Y. 1958, p. 193; The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 12, 1979, pp. 87–88; Nioman, Minsk, no. 2, 1988, pp. 7–106."
- 1887 births
- 1937 suicides
- People from Kapyl
- People from Slutsky Uyezd
- Bolsheviks
- Communist Party of Byelorussia politicians
- Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia people
- Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic people
- Belarusian male poets
- Belarusian writers
- 20th-century Belarusian poets
- Belarusian novelists
- Belarusian politicians who committed suicide
- Suicides in the Soviet Union
- Soviet people who died in prison custody
- Prisoners who died in Soviet detention
- People who committed suicide in prison custody
- Great Purge victims from Belarus
- Soviet rehabilitations
- Belarusian people stubs