The State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art hosts an exhibition on 130th anniversary of writer, political and public figure Tishka GARTNY

The Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art (BGAMLI) hosts an exhibition “A Singer of Labor and Struggle” dedicated to 130th anniversary of the birth of Tishka GARTNY (Zmiter ZHILUNOVICH, 1887-1937), writer, political and public figure.

At the opening ceremony the BGAMLI Director Ganna Zapartyka told about the Archival Collection of Tishka Gartny (Record Group # 15). The writer’s biographical and work papers entered the Archives-Museum on 28 July 1962 from the Central State Archives of the October Revolution of the BSSR and on 29 October 1987 from the writer’s nephew D. Andrusevich.

Leading research fellow Viktar Zhybul acquainted the participants with the exhibition items. Among these are Tishka Gartny’s letters and correspondence to the editors of the newspaper Nasha Niva, manuscript copies of his writings, a draft program of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly with T. Gartny’s corrections, lifetime editions, biographical documents, recollections of the writer’s contemporaries and many photographs.

Doctor of History Emanuil Iofe narrated about the little known facts from the biography of Tishka Gartny, his role in the establishment of the Belarusian statehood, and some errors that occur in encyclopedias and biographical directories. Candidate of Philology Mikola Trus touched upon the topic of Belarusian-Czech literary relations in respect to Tishka Gartny’s work.