Today is 125th anniversary of Yanka Kupala
A national poet of Belarus Yunka Kupala was born on July 7, 1882 in Vyazynka mansion, Vileika District (now it is Maladzechna District of Minsk Region) to a family of a tenant.
He started writing in Polish.
His first well-known verse “My lot” is dated 1904. The first published verse was “A Peasant” (May 15, 1905).
Three years later the poet’s first collection of verse “Zhaleika” was out. Collections “Guslar” (1910) and “Along the Path of Life” (1913) appeared later. Collections of verse “Heritage” (1922), “Untitled” (1925), “Versified Narration” (two books, 1926), poems “Lion’s Grave” (1927), “Upon the Aresa river” (1933), “Barrow” (1987), collection “Withering” (1930) and other works were published in the Soviet time.
Many of his verses were set to music.
Yanka Kupala is also the author of many dramas — “Paulіnka”, “Ravaged Nest”, “ The Natives”.
Kupala was also a publicist, critic and translator. He had to leave Belarus on June 1941.
The poet lived in Moscow, than moved to the Volga – the village of Pyacheshchi near Kazan. A year later he arrived in Moscow to give an interview for the radio.
Yunka Kupala died on June 28, 1942. It was a tragic death and its circumstances are still not clear. This untimely death ended the life of the National poet.
He started writing in Polish.
His first well-known verse “My lot” is dated 1904. The first published verse was “A Peasant” (May 15, 1905).
Three years later the poet’s first collection of verse “Zhaleika” was out. Collections “Guslar” (1910) and “Along the Path of Life” (1913) appeared later. Collections of verse “Heritage” (1922), “Untitled” (1925), “Versified Narration” (two books, 1926), poems “Lion’s Grave” (1927), “Upon the Aresa river” (1933), “Barrow” (1987), collection “Withering” (1930) and other works were published in the Soviet time.
Many of his verses were set to music.
Yanka Kupala is also the author of many dramas — “Paulіnka”, “Ravaged Nest”, “ The Natives”.
Kupala was also a publicist, critic and translator. He had to leave Belarus on June 1941.
The poet lived in Moscow, than moved to the Volga – the village of Pyacheshchi near Kazan. A year later he arrived in Moscow to give an interview for the radio.
Yunka Kupala died on June 28, 1942. It was a tragic death and its circumstances are still not clear. This untimely death ended the life of the National poet.
