- Zmicier Zhylunovich
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Zmicier Zhylunovich (Belarusian-lacinka: Źmicier Žyłunovič, Belarusian-Cyrillic alphabet: Зьміцер Жылуновіч, transliterated from Russian: Dmitri Zhilunovich) (October 13, 1887 — April 11, 1937) was Belarusian poet, writer and journalist known under pen name Tsishka Hartny (Ciška Hartny, Цішка Гартны), and a political leader. He was the first head of a Soviet state in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.[1]
In 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested as an enemy of the Belarusian people and committed suicide in prison.[1]
References
- ^ 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."
Categories:- 1887 births
- 1937 deaths
- People from Kapyl
- Belarusian poets
- Belarusian writers
- Great Purge victims
- 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
- Communist Party of Byelorussia politicians
- Belarusian people stubs
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