Zmicier Zhylunovich


Zmicier Zhylunovich was a Belarusian poet, writer and journalist, known under pen name Tsishka Hartny, and a political leader.
He was the first head of a Soviet government in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.
In 1924 he published a book "Slivers on the waves".
In 1937, during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, he was arrested as an "enemy of the Belarusian people" and committed suicide in prison.