'New Land' is Yakub Kolas's seminal poem, an encyclopedia of the life of the Belarusian peasantry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An epic tale about the dream of one's own land, about labor, nature, and the national character. One of the fundamental works of Belarusian literature.
Book in Belarusian
Yakub Kolas (real name and surname Konstantin Mikhailovich Mitskevich) was a Belarusian writer, playwright, poet, translator, and public figure. He was one of the classics and founders of modern Belarusian literature. People’s Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Byelorussian SSR (1928). Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1934). Honored Scientist of the Byelorussian SSR (1944). Member of the VKP(b) from 1945.
He was born on 22 October (3 November) 1882 in the village of Akinchitsy (now part of the town of Stowbtsy, Stowbtsy District, Minsk…
