State literary and memorial museum of Yakub Kolas description and photos - Belarus: Minsk (Topic)

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The Yakub Kolas State Literary and Memorial Museum was opened on December 4, 1959 in the house where the people's poet of Belarus lived. Located at 66a F. Skaryna Avenue.

Today it is impossible to imagine modern Belarusian literature without Yakub Kolas. The great Belarusian poet sang the song of revolution and war, glorifying the heroic deed of his people.

Yakub Kolas (Konstantin Mikhailovich Mitskevich) was born in 1882 in the village of Okonchitsy. Since 1906, he led an active revolutionary struggle, published poems and poems with a bright revolutionary content. In 1928, Yakub Kolas became an academician, during the war he wrote poems about the heroic deed of the Belarusian people, after the war, in 1946 he became the chairman of the Belarusian Peace Committee, since 1953 he was the editor of the Russian-Belarusian dictionary.

The two-storey house with a garden, in which the museum is located, was built on the territory of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The house was rebuilt several times and in the form in which we can see it now, it was built in 1952 for the 70th anniversary of the poet.

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