__NOTOC__ Anatol Hrytskievich ( be, Анатоль Грыцкевіч; January 31, 1929 – January 20, 2015) was a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...

ian historian. He was a correspondent member of the International Academy of Science of Eurasia (1996–2015), doctor of history (1986–2015), professor (1987–2015). He was born in

Minsk Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...

. Anatol Hrytskievich graduated in 1950 from the Minsk Medical Institute and in 1955 — from the Minsk Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and in 1958 from the

Belarusian State University Belarusian State University (BSU) ( be, links=no, Белару́скі дзяржа́ўны ўніверсітэ́т, ; russian: links=no, Белору́сский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a university in Mins ...

history faculty. Since 1959 Anatol Hrytskievich worked at the History Institute of the

Academy of Sciences of Belarus The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) ( be, Нацыянальная акадэмія навук Беларусі, russian: Национальная академия наук Беларуси, НАН Беларуси, НАНБ) is ...

, since 1975 as a dean at the Minsk Culture Institute, since 1996 as director of the Belarusian Institute of Central and Eastern Europe. Hrytskievich was a researcher of medieval

History of Belarus This article describes the history of Belarus. The Belarusian ethnos is traced at least as far in time as other East Slavs. Belarus is a successor of some Ruthenian principalities (Polotsk, Turov, Novogrudok, etc.), the Grand Duchy of Lithua ...

, the history of Belarusian

szlachta The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...

, Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism in Belarus. Anatol Hrytskievich died on January 20, 2015.

Selected works

Аршанская бітва 1514 года і яе ўдзельнікі
(''The

Battle of Orsha The Battle of Orsha ( be, Бітва пад Оршай, translit=Bitva pad Oršaj, lt, Oršos mūšis, pl, bitwa pod Orszą, uk, Битва під Оршею), was a battle fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the Grand Du ...

of 1514 and its participants'')
Слуцкае паўстанне. На крутым павароце гісторыі
(''The

Slutsk Uprising The Slutsk uprising () or the Slutsk defence ( be, Слуцкі збройны чын, links=no, translit=Slucki zbrojny čyn) was an unsuccessful armed attempt to establish an independent Belarus. It took place in late 1920, near the end of the ...

: on a sharp volt of history'')

Selected articles and interviews

Гісторыя геапалітыкі Беларусі
(''The history of Geopolitics of Belarus'')

(''The crowning of Mindouh as an act of statehood'')
Анатоль Грыцкевіч: 1000 год таму Літва знаходзілася на тэрыторыі Беларусі
(''Anatol Hrytskievich: 1000 years ago the historical Lithuania was on the lands of modern Belarus'')

(''The decline of Belarusian language in the Belarusian-Lithuanian state in the 18th century'')

Selected works

Selected articles and interviews

References

Further reading