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Jurka Vićbič
Jurka Vićbič, sometimes given as , Polonization, : (15 June 1905 – 6 January 1975, also known as Jury Stukalicz), Polonization, : was a pen name of Sierafim Alaksandravich Ščarbakoŭ,, Polonization, : a Belarus, Belarusian writer, publicist and a prominent member of the Belarusian diaspora. Life in Belarus Vićbič was born in Velizh, Vieliž, Vitebsk Governorate, Viciebsk Province of the Russian Empire into the family of an Orthodox Priest. He graduated from a teaching college and started writing in the late 1920s. In 1929 his first work appeared in (, ''High Ground''), a literary journal which was published between 1927 and 1931 in Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Belarus, followed by his books ''The Death of Irma Lajmin''g () in 1932 and ''The Formula of Bones’ Resistance'' () in 1937. However, his work ''L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim'' (, lit. "Next year in Jerusalem", ) was not permitted for publication in Soviet Belarus. Vićbič was acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieliž
Velizh (russian: Ве́лиж) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Velizhsky District in Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of the Daugava River, Western Dvina, from Smolensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: History In the late 14th century, it used to be a border fortress of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Muscovy recaptured it in 1536, but it was restored to Lithuania in the 1582 Truce of Yam-Zapolsky. The town was returned to Russia under the terms of the First Partition of Poland. The houses of Nikolay Przhevalsky and Alexander Rodzyanko in the proximity to Velizh are open to the public as museums. After the First Partition of Poland in 1772 the area was included into newly established Pskov Governorate, a giant administrative unit comprising what is currently Pskov Oblast and a considerable part of Belarus. After 1773, the area belonged to Velizhsky Uyezd of Pskov Governorate. In 1777, it was tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
