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Kupała (film)
''Kupała'' () is a biopic produced by Belarusfilm, BelarusFilm in 2020 which dramatises the turbulent and tragic life of Belarusian poet Yanka Kupala, Janka Kupała. The film was directed by Belarusian director (aka Vladimir Yankovskiy) based on a storyline written by Aliaksandra Barysava and Alena Kalunova and starred Mikalaj Śestak (aka Nikolay Shestak), a Latvian actor with Belarusian roots, in lead role. The official release of the film has been postponed due to the political situation in Belarus and Russia: Plot “The film reveals the main milestones of the poet's life and career, coinciding with the most tragic events of the 20th century”. “The fate of Kupała is written in the historical context and is closely connected with the fate of Belarus. Standing at the origins of the formation of the [modern] Belarusian nation, Kupała witnessed the birth of hopes for national revival and became a hostage of the totalitarian Soviet system. The complex personal story of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusfilm
Belarusfilm () is the main film studio of Belarus. History Soviet times Belarusfilm, under the name ''Belgoskino'' was founded in 1924. The first film shot at the studio was "The Forest Past" by Yuri Tarich. In 1928, the ''Soviet Belarus'' studio (''Савецкая Беларусь'') was founded in Leningrad and moved to Minsk in 1939. Film production was interrupted by World War II, and restarted in 1946, when the studio assumed its current name. After World War II, the studio was dubbed ''Partizanfilm'', due to the large output of films portraying the Soviet partisan's struggle against Nazi occupation. In Soviet times, the studio was also renowned for its children's films. Its first project was a co-production with Soyuzmultfilm in 1963 – a stop motion feature film called ''Attention! The Magician is in the City!'' Consistent animated film production, however, did not begin until 1972. The studio has to date made 131 animated films. Most of the output has been in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usievalad Ihnatoŭski
Usievalad Makaravich Ihnatoŭski (; ; 19 April 1881 — 4 February 1931) was a Belarusian politician, scholar and the first president of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Early years Ihnatoŭski, the son of a teacher, was born in the village of Takary, Hrodna governorate of the Russian Empire (now Kamianiec district of Brest region in Belarus).Маракоў, Леанід.Рэпрэсаваныя літаратары, навукоўцы, работнікі асветы, грамадскія і культурныя дзеячы Беларусі. 1794-1991: Усевалад Ігнатоўскі Leanid Marakou">epressed writers, scientists, educators, public and cultural figures of Belarus. 1794-1991: Usievalad Ihatoŭski, by Leanid Marakou ''www.marakou.by'' (in Belarusian). Retrieved 2021-07-30. After finishing local schools, he studied history and philology at St. Petersburg University, but was expelled for revolutionary activities and was a member of the Sociali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusian Language
Belarusian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language. It is one of the two Languages of Belarus, official languages in Belarus, the other being Russian language, Russian. It is also spoken in parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine, and the United States by the Belarusian diaspora. Before Belarus Dissolution of the Soviet Union, gained independence in 1991, the language was known in English language, English as ''Byelorussian'' or ''Belorussian'', or alternatively as ''White Russian''. Following independence, it became known as ''Belarusian'', or alternatively as ''Belarusan''. As one of the East Slavic languages, Belarusian shares many grammatical and lexical features with other members of the group. To some extent, Russian, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, and Belarusian retain a degree of mutual intelligibility. Belarusian descends from a language generally referred to as Ruthenian language, Ruthenian (13th to 18th centuries), which had, in turn, descend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joint State Political Directorate
The Joint State Political Directorate ( rus, Объединённое государственное политическое управление, p=ɐbjɪdʲɪˈnʲɵn(ː)əjə ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əjə pəlʲɪˈtʲitɕɪskəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪje), abbreviated as OGPU (), was the secret police of the Soviet Union from November 1923 to July 1934, succeeding the State Political Directorate (GPU). Responsible to the Council of People's Commissars, the OGPU was headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky until 1926, then by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky until replaced by the Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) within the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD). The OGPU played an important role in the Soviet Union's forced collectivization of agriculture under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, crushing resistance and deporting millions of peasants to the growing network of Gulag forced labor camps. The OGPU operated both inside and outside the country, persecuting political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Zatonsky
Volodymyr Petrovych Zatonsky (; July 27, 1888 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet Union, Soviet politician, academic, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party activist, full member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (from 1929) and Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (from 1936). Early life Zatonsky was born in the village of Lysets in of Ushitsy (Ushytsia) Uyezd, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine) into the family of a volost scribe, pysar. Political career He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) party as a Menshevik in 1905. In March 1917 he joined the Bolsheviks as the member of the Kyiv Committee, later joining the Kyiv revkom as well. He was one of few who initiated the organization of the Congress of the Workers-Peasants and Soldiers deputies as well as the military coup in Kyiv. Zatonsky participated in the fight against the Central Rada. When the Red Army took o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Radziwiłł
Princess Maria Madeleine Radziwiłł (born Marie-Eve-Madeleine-Josephus-Elizabeth-Apollonia-Catherine Zawisza-Kierżgajło; 1861 Warsaw – 1945 Fribourg) was a Polish–Belarusian aristocrat who financed many Catholic works and Belarusian national renaissance. Biography She was the daughter of Count and the Countess Marie Kwilecka, former lady-in-waiting to the Russian Empress and great-granddaughter of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. The count was keen on archaeology and collected ancient medals and coins. They spoke French and Polish at home, as well as Belarusian with servants. She was educated by governesses and teachers. She spent her winters in Warsaw. Her older sister married of the Nieborów branch and also became a philanthropist. In 1882, Madeleine married the wealthy Count (1833–1885) who was 27 years her senior. They had a daughter, Maria Ludwika (1883–1958), who married Prince Adam Czartoryski in 1901. As a widow, Countess Krasinska spent most of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazep Drazdovič
Jazep Drazdovič (1888–1954, Belarusian: Язэп Нарцызавіч Драздовіч, ) was a Belarusian painter, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Born in the present day Hłybokaje District in the family of a landless nobleman, Drazdovič studied in Dzisna Vitebsk Region, after that in Vilnia under Ivan Trutnev. Today Drazdovič's works are preserved in Belarusian National Arts Museum, Belarusian National History Museum and National Museum of Lithuania. Early life Jazep was born on October 13, 1888, in the village of Punki, Dzisna County, Vilna Province, in the family of an impoverished nobleman. When he was two, his father died; Jazep and his five brothers were raised by their mother, and soon the family was left without land and a home. The family often had to change their place of residence, renting land. Drazdovich began his studies with a private teacher, then he studied at the Dzisna Gymnasium, and in 1906 moved to Vilnius, where he entered the art schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uladzimir Tsesler
Uladzimir Tsesler (; born 30 April 1951) is a Belarusian artist and designer. Life Tsesler graduated from the design department of the Faculty of Design and Decorative Applied Arts of the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute in 1979. He lived and worked in Minsk. After the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, Tsesler became a member of the Coordination Council for ensuring the transfer of power, after which he was forced to leave Belarus. He first moved to Kyiv and then settled in Cyprus. Works Since 1979, Tsesler worked together with Sergey Voychenko. The creative tandem gained international fame. Their "Project of the Century. 12 of the XX", in which the twelve most significant artists of the 20. century were presented in the form of eggs, was exhibited at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow (1999-2000), at the Ludwig Museum at the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg (2000) and at the Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaclau Lastouski
Vatslaw Yustynavich Lastowski (, , ; 8 November 1883 – 23 January 1938) was a leading figure of the Belarusian independence movement in the early 20th century and the Prime Minister of the Belarusian Democratic Republic from 1919 to 1923, as well as a writer, historian and academic of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences persecuted by the Soviet authorities. Early years Lastowski was born on 8 November 1883 in the village of Kalyesnikaw in the Disna uyezd of the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Lastovichi, Belarus) into the family of a landless nobleman. Having received his primary education at the Pahost Primary School, he moved to Vilnius in 1896 where he worked as a shop assistant and, later, in Šiauliai, as a clerk. In 1902, Lastowski joined the Polish Socialist Party which was active in Lithuania. In 1905-1906 he worked as a librarian of a student library in St. Petersburg where he also attended lectures at the Faculty of History without being enrolled at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkadź Smolič
Arkadź Antonavič Smolič (also spelled Arkadzi Smolich, , ; 29 September 1891 - 17 June 1938) was an academic, active participant of the Belarusian independence movement and a victim of Stalin's purges. Biography Arkadź Smolicz, (Belarusian Аркадзь Антонавіч Смоліч), Arkadź Antonawicz Smolicz (born September 29, 1891, in Bacewicze near Babruysk, died June 17, 1938, in Omsk) - Belarusian national activist, social democratic politician, scientist - geographer and cartographer, minister of agriculture in the government of the BRL in the Republic of Belarus, 1920 year, social and scientific activist in Soviet Belarus. He was educated at the theological seminary in Minsk, later at the New Alexandrian Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (now Puławy) and the Kiev University of Technology. From 1910, a member of the Belarusian Socialist Hramada, involved in the activities of the Belorussia cottage in Minsk. He wrote for the newspapers "Ranica" ("Раніц ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ściapan Niekraševič
Ściapan Niekraševič (), also known as Stepan Nekrashevich (; 8 May 1883 – 20 December 1937) was a Belarusian academic, political figure and a victim of Great Purge, Stalin's purges. Early years Niekraševič was born in the estate of Daniłoŭka in Minsk province of the Russian Empire (nowadays in Svietlahorsk District, Śvietłahorsk district of Homiel region of Belarus) into the family of a petty nobleman. He graduated from the Vilna Teachers' Institute in 1913 and embarked on a teaching career. During World War I he was conscripted into the Russian Imperial Army. Involvement in the Belarusian independence movement While in the army, Niekraševič became involved with an organisation of Belarusian soldiers on the Romanian Front and in 1917 organised a conference in the city of Odessa. He published a bulletin for Belarusians in southern Ukraine. He accepted the authority of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and agreed to represent the Rada of the Belarusian Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
