10.09.1809 or 1811

He was born in Kukavechyna, Vitebsk district.

1829–1830

He studied at the Dinaburg school of ensigns.

1830–1831

Participated in the uprising, emigrated to France.

1832–1846

Lived in Paris. He began to prepare memoirs about the November Uprising - his own and those of his comrades in arms. Fragments of them under the title "Uprising of Viley, Zaviley and Disen counties" were published anonymously in 1836.

1839

At the meeting of the Polish Literary Society in Paris, A. Rypinski read the first report on Belarusian ethnography and folklore.

1840

On the basis of his own lectures, he published a folkloristic study "Belarus" as a separate book, in which he first systematized the oral creativity of the Belarusian people by genres and topics. The book contains a large number of ritual works, provides descriptions of ceremonies, information on the history of literature and musical culture of Vitebsk region, published folk religious songs of book origin, own works stylized as folk songs.

1846

He moved to London, where he was engaged in publishing and creative activities, taught languages, mathematics and drawing. He was widely known as an artist, he designed his own books, and he showed his talent for artistic photography.

1852

Together with I. Yatkovsky, he founded a free printing house in the London suburb of Tottenham.

1859

He returned to his homeland. Under the supervision of the police, he lived in Kukavechyna, later moved to the Stragana estate. He collected samples of rich Belarusian oral and poetic creativity, processed folk songs (classified them), fairy tales. He worked on the history of Belarusian literature, created a number of biographies of Belarusian writers, following a list he had compiled himself (55 names).

1886 or 1900
He died in Stragany.