Jan Niesłuchowski (1851,

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– 1897, Minsk), better known by his pen name Janka Lučyna (, Yanka Luchyna), was a poet from the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...

who wrote in Belarusian, Polish, and

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. A son of a minor government official, Niesłuchowski graduated from Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology and worked as a railway engineer. Because of a leg disease he needed crutches to walk.Пачынальнікі: 3 гісторыка-літаратурных матэрыялаў XIX ст. / Уклад. Г. Кісялёў. Мн., 1977. С. 474. A collection of his Belarusian poems and translations, ''Viazanka'' (''A Bundle'') was published in 1903, several years after his death, earning him a place among the founders of the modern Belarusian literature.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucyna, Janka Poets from the Russian Empire 1851 births 1897 deaths