Selected works by Yanka Kupala, the people's poet of Belarus. The play 'Tuteishyya' is a satire on those who are unaware of their national identity. The poems 'Kurgan,' 'She and I,' 'Dream on the Barrow,' 'On Kutya,' and 'On Grandfathers' are the pinnacles of Belarusian poetry, imbued with national spirit and historical memory.
Book in Belarusian
Yanka Kupala (real name Ivan Dominikovich Lutsevich) was a Belarusian poet, dramatist, and publicist. A classic of Belarusian literature. Народный поэт of the BSSR (1925). Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (1928) and the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1929). Laureate of the Stalin Prize, first degree (1941).
Childhood and youth
He was born on 25 June (7 July) 1882 in the village of Vyazynka (now in Molodechno District, Minsk Region, Belarus) into the family of Dominik Onufrievich Lutsevich and Benigna Ivanovna Lutsevich (née Volosevich).
