Situation in occupied Belarusian lands and the end of war in Belarus

Socio-political activity

Application of Belarusian writer V. Znamerovsky to the German occupation authorities on the publication of newspaper and magazine in the Belarusian language. 1915. Manuscript. German. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 119, l. 4)
Appeal of the Committee of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims to the German occupation authorities on the national press. Vilna. October 1915. Manuscript on the society’s letterhead. German. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 119, l. 6-7 ob.)
I. and A. Lutskevich – Belarusian social and political figures, active members of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims and other Belarusian civic associations.  Photo [the 1910s] (fragment). (BGAMLI, f. 323, op. 1, d. 231)
V. Lastovsky – Belarusian social and political figure and scholar, active member of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims and other Belarusian civic associations. Photo [1913-1914]. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 3, d. 29, l. 1)
Article by A. Lutskevich "Recognition of the Belarusian language during the German occupation in World War I". [1939]. Autograph of A. Lutskevich. Belarusian, German. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 48, l. 15-18)
Minutes of the School Commission of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims. Vilna. 2 (15) October 1915 – 26 January (8 February) 1916. Manuscript. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 124, l. 2-13 ob.)
Appeal of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims to the German occupation authorities with request to release from forced labour the young teachers who graduated from the Belarusian Teachers Courses at Vilna. [1915-1917]. Manuscript. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 124, l. 129)
Correspondence between the Vilna division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims and the town authorities on the issues of Belarusian school education and healthcare. Vilna. 14 December 1915 – 8 September 1916. Manuscript. Autograph of A. Lutskevich. Typescript. On the institutional letterhead. Polish, Belarusian, German. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 126, l. 14, 9-9 ob., 18-18 ob., 17, 44-45 ob.)
Letters of the Vilna division of the Belarusian Society for Assistance to War Victims to the town authorities concerning the opening and work of the Belarusian national cuisine. June – July 1917. Draft copies. Manuscript. Russian, Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 131, l. 46; d. 132, l. 5, 9)
Article by A. Lutskevich "The internal work" on the activities of Belarusian organisations under the German occupation. 1916. Print. "Belarusian Calendar 1917". Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 52, l. 15 ob-16 ob.)
"Memorandum of the Belarusian representatives at the Third Conference of Nationalities" outlining the history of the Belarusian nation and substantiating its right for independence (among the participants are I. Lutskevich and V. Lastovsky). Lausanne (Switzerland). 27 June 1916. Print. French, Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 193, l. 59-60 ob.)
Appeal from the Belarusian civic organisations to the Chief Commission of the Reichstag of the German Empire approving its decision to introduce self-government in Belarusian-Lithuanian-Latvian lands. Vilna. 1 September 1917. Draft. Manuscript. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 132, l. 13-14)
Appeal from the Jewish representatives of Vilna to the German occupation authorities on the necessity of a proportionate representation of different nationalities in the highest body of local self-government of Lithuania.  [September – October] 1917. Draft. Manuscript. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 133, l. 54-54 ob.)
Appeal from the Belarusian civic organisations to the commander of the German military administration in the District of Lithuania on the necessity of creation of independent Belarusian-Lithuanian state. Vilna. October 1917. Drafts, manuscript. Typescript. Belarusian in Latin script, German. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 132, l. 15-16 ob.; d. 133, l. 46-46 ob., 48-48 ob.)
Letter of the Belarusian public and political figures to the Imperial Chancellor of Germany on the difficult political situation in Belarus in view of the ungrounded claims of Lithuanian and Polish circles for Belarusian ethnic territories. Draft. Autograph of A. Lutskevich. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 140, l. 47-51)
Resolution of meeting of the Belarusian organisations demanding for the unity of all Belarusian territories occupied by German troops and the necessity to convene the Belarusian Conference in Vilna (text written by A. Lutskevich). 30 September 1917. Draft. Autograph of A. Lutskevich. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 140, l. 74-75)
Appeal of the presidium of the Belarusian meeting to the German occupation authorities to permit Belarusian representatives from provinces to participate in the organisation of the Belarusian Conference in Vilna. Vilna. 4 October 1917. Draft. Manuscript. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 271, l. 18-18 ob.)
Draft declaration of protest by Vilna socialist and democratic organisations against the actions of the Lithuanian Council (Tariba) in establishing a monarchy under the auspices of Germany in the territory of Lithuania and Belarus occupied by German troops and for introducing democratic regime in the region. [1917-1918]. Manuscript. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 134, l. 26-26 ob.)
Letter of A. Lutskevich to the German occupation authorities requesting to accept a delegation of the Vilna Belarusian Council (Rada) and the Grodno Province Committee of Civil Organisations in Petersburg to discuss in Berlin the issues of Lithuanian-Belarusian statehood and reemigration of Belarusians from Russia. [1918]. Draft. Autograph of A. Lutskevich. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 140, l. 19)
Letter of the Vilna Belarusian Council to the German occupation authorities on the necessity of introducing Belarusian inscriptions on new banknotes in the occupied territories. [1918]. Typescript. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 140, l. 24)
Appeal of the Vilna Belarusian Council to the Imperial Chancellor of Germany against the intentions of Polish circles to declare Belarusian lands in Belostok and Grodno as a Polish territory. Vilna. 18 February 1918. Draft. Manuscript. Belarusian in Latin script. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 132, l. 20)
The First Constituent Charter to the peoples of Belarus by the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress. Minsk. 21 February 1918. Photocopy. Print. Illustrirovannaia khronologiia istorii Belarusi. Minsk, 2000. P. 220. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Resolution  of the People’s Secretariat of Belarus № 1. Minsk. 21 February 1918. Photocopy. Print. Illustrirovannaia khronologiia istorii Belarusi. Minsk, 2000. P. 220. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
The Second Constituent Charter to the peoples of Belarus by the Executive Committee of the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress. Minsk. 9 March 1918. Photocopy. Print. Istoriia Belarusi. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov. Minsk, 2000. P. 302-303. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
The Third Constituent Charter of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Minsk. 25 March 1918. Photocopy. Typescript. Autographs of the Council members. Illustrirovannaia khronologiia istorii Belarusi. Minsk, 2000. P. 223. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Article by A. Lutskevich "Construction of the state life" (excerpt). 3 April 1918. Photocopy. Print. Istoriia Belarusi. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov. Minsk, 2000. P. 326. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Article by A. Lutskevich "On the state construction". 5 October 1918. Photocopy. Print. Istoriia Belarusi. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov. Minsk, 2000. P. 324-325. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Receipt for money received by Ya. Stankevich from the government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic for the publication of the social political newspaper "Homan". 16 November 1918. Autograph of Ya. Stankevich. Belarusian. (BGAMLI, f. 3, op. 1, d. 51, l. 7)
Programme of the Government of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (excerpts). 28 November 1918. Photocopy. Print. Istoriia Belarusi. Sbornik dokumentov i materialov. Minsk, 2000. P. 319-323. Belarusian. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)