Wazlau Justynawitsch Lastouski

Wazlau Justynawitsch Lastouski

Wazlau Justynawitsch Lastouski ( Belarusian Вацлаў Юстынавіч Ластоўскі , Russian Вацлав Устинович Ластовский * October 27 ^jul. / 8. November  1883 ^greg. On the estate Kolesniki in Glubokoe in Vilna Governorate , † 23 January 1938 in Saratov ) was a Belarusian writer and Politician .

Life

Lastouski only received four years of schooling. He joined the Polish Socialist Party in 1902 . In 1903 he married the Lithuanian writer Marija Lastauskienė (the divorce followed a few years later). 1904–1905 he studied at the University of St. Petersburg . In 1906 he went to Riga and worked with Belarusian activists. 1906–1908 he was a member of the Belarusian Socialist Hramada . In 1909 he became the editorial secretary of the magazine Nascha Niwa in Vilnius (until 1914). He also edited the agrarian-democratic magazine Sacha in 1912 .

Lastouski stayed in Vilna during the First World War . In January 1915, he and the brothers Ivan and Anton Lutskevich and others signed an appeal to the German occupation authorities to publish Belarusian newspapers. 1916–1917 he was editor of the socio-political - literary magazine Goman . Together with Janka Kupala and Maxim Harezki, he initiated a broad discussion on the development of Belarusian literature. He was involved in the Belarusian bookstore and the Belarusian school book publisher in Vilnius. In 1915 he joined the leadership of the Christian Association . He was one of the authors of the memorandum that called for national self-determination in Belarus and was presented at the 1916 international conference in Lausanne .

1918-1919 Lastouski was a member of the Vilna Belarusian council . In March 1918 he was co-opted into the Council of the Belarusian People's Republic and took part in the proclamation of the independence of the Belarusian People's Republic. In November 1918 he became a member of the Lithuanian State Council and was attaché to the Lithuanian embassy in Berlin . In 1919 he became a member of the Belarusian Social Revolutionary Party (BPS-R) . From December 1919 to April 1922 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Belarusian People's Republic (as successor to Anton Lutskewitsch and predecessor of AI Zwikewitsch ). On December 17, 1919, as a result of the Polish-Soviet War, he was arrested by the Polish authorities. He was released in February 1920 and went to Riga and then to Kaunas . In addition to TT Grib , KS Dusch-Duschewski and AI Zwikewitsch, Lastouski was a member of the committee of the foreign groups of the BPS-R. He participated in the organization of the anti-Polish partisan movement . In the resistance against the Soviet power and the Polish occupation, he campaigned for an independent and indivisible Belarus. He traveled to the countries of Western Europe to campaign for the independence of Belarus. In 1922 he was editor of the monthly magazine for social politics and literature and organ of the government of the People's Republic of Belarus Flag of Belarus . In 1926 Lastouski became a corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Social Sciences in Prague .

In 1927 Lastouski became director of the Belarusian State Museum in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and head of the Department of Ethnography at the Institute of Belarusian Culture in Minsk , in 1928 a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and in 1929 its secretary. He researched the ancient Belarusian history and literature as well as the development of the name Belarus. He wrote historical and literary works, stories , memoirs and essays about the leaders of the Belarusian national movement. He translated classical works of Russian, English , Polish and Danish literature into Belarusian .

On July 21, 1930, Lastouski, like many other Belarusian scholars and representatives of cultural life, was arrested by the Tomsk GPU and charged with membership of the Union for the Liberation of Belarus. His membership in the Academy was revoked (returned in 1990) and in 1931 he was sentenced to five years' exile in Saratov . There he headed the Department of Outstanding Books and Manuscripts of the Saratov University Library . In 1938 he was arrested again in Saratov and shot. In 1958 and 1988 he was rehabilitated .

The lecturer at the Department of Humanities at the Belarusian University of Computer Science and Radioelectronics A. Gronski accused Lastouski of having falsified texts by Kastus Kalinouski in order to create the myth of Kastus Kalinouski as the hero of the Belarusian national movement.

Web links

Commons : Wazlau Justynawitsch Lastouski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Глубокский историко-этнографический музей: Ластовский Вацлав Устинович ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 18, 2016). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} National Academy of Sciences of Belarus: Академик ЛАСТОВСКИЙ Вацлав Устинович (accessed December 18, 2016).
3. ↑ Ластовский Вацлав (accessed December 18, 2016).
4. ↑ ЛАСТОЎСКІ Вацлаў Юстынавіч (accessed December 18, 2016).
5. ↑ Vytautas Žeimantas: Vaclovas Lastauskas ir Lazdynų Pelėda . XXI amžius, 2010.
6. ↑ ARK: Вільня ці Менск? Трагічны выбар Вацлава Ластоўскага ( Memento from September 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 18, 2016).
7. ↑ Беларуская энцыклапедыя (Volume 9) . Minsk 1999.
8. ↑ А. Гронский: Кастусь Калиновский: конструирование героя . In: Беларуская думка . No. 2 , 2008, p. 82-87 .