Zmicier Zhylunovich

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

1. ^ ^{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."

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Name	Zhylunovich, Zmicier
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Short description	Belarusian writer
Date of birth	1887
Place of birth
Date of death	1937
Place of death