Selected dates:

October 13, 1888

Born on the Punki farm in the Vilna province (Russian Empire, today the Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus).

1906-1910

He studied at the Vilna Drawing School under the professor of painting I. Trutnev.

He served in the army, worked as an art teacher in a women's gymnasium in Minsk, and as an illustrator actively collaborated with magazines and newspapers.

1917

In his small homeland, the artist created a public library and an amateur theater .

1921

He organized a Belarusian school in the village of Stolitsa, which lasted only three months and was closed by the Polish administration.

1926

He worked at the Vilna Belarusian gymnasium, at which he created an art studio-workshop , rallied young Belarusian artists.

September 15, 1954

He died and was buried in Liplyany, Glubokoe district, Gomel region.

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• Literature:

• The book "Vyalіkaya shishka, or Var'yat without Var'yatstva".

• The story "Garadolskaya pushcha", with his own illustrations, 1921.

• The story "Big Shot", 1923.

• The book on astronomy in the Belarusian language "Heavenly Runs", 1931.

  Monograph "Theory of motion in cosmological meaning", 1949.