Archival documents on Yanka Kupala’s life and work

Original works

Poem “Over the Cradle (An imitation of Lermontov’s)”. 26 June 1906. Page proofs. (BGAMLI, fond 3, inv. 1, file 38, folio 26)
Article “Do we have a right to renounce our language?” Print. (BGAMLI, newspaper Nasha Niva, No.15, April 17, 1914)
Article “And yet we live!..” Print. (BGAMLI, newspaper Nasha Niva, No.21-22, June 6, 1914)
Poem “It Was Not Fated” (Ne sudzila dolia). 3 January 1915. Autograph of Kupala. (The Kupala State Literary Museum, КП 110/А-110)
Poem “My Evening”. 4 February 1915. Autograph of Kupala. (The Kupala State Literary Museum, КП 109/А-109)
Poem “The Autumn is Crying”. 12 June 1915. Autograph of Kupala. (The Kupala State Literary Museum, КП 111/А-111)
Poem “Learn!” (an example of writing according to the new orthography proposed by the Academic conference for the reform of Belarusian orthography and alphabet). 1926. Print. (BGAMLI, fond 3, inv. 1, file 259, folio 36)
Poem “The New Autumn”. September 1930. Typescript. (NARB, fond 4, inv. 1, file 5036, folio 251)
Poem “The Clouds will Disappear over the Collective Farm”. September1930. Typescript. (NARB, fond 4, inv. 1, file 5036, folio 252)
Preface to the poem “Over the River Oressa”. 1933. Autograph of Kupala. (BGAMLI, fond 8, inv. 1, file 1, folio 1-2)
Poem “On Memory of Suleiman Stalski”. Kislovodsk. 27 November 1937. Autograph of Kupala with an inscription by the Russian poet M. Isakovski. (BGAMLI, fond 8, inv. 1, file 4, folio 1–4)
Poem “The Song of Construction”. Detail. Moscow. 1940. Sound recording (voice of Kupala). Rerecorded in 1972. Magnetic tape. Duration 4:07 mins. Speed 38. Reel 1. (BGAKFFD, 0579)
Poem “We Need Songs”. Detail. Moscow. 1940. Sound recording (voice of Kupala). Rerecorded in 1972. Magnetic tape. Duration 3:05 mins. Speed 38. (BGAKFFD, 0579)

Abbreviations:

NARB National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
BGAKFFD Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings
BGAMLI Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art