Zmicier Zhylunovich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zmicier Zhylunovich

Belarusian writer

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1887

Place of Birth: Kapyl, Belarus

Date of Death: 11-Apr-1937

Profession: poet, politician, playwright, translator, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Zmicier Zhylunovich (Belarusian-lacinka: Zmicier Žylunovic, Belarusian-Cyrillic alphabet: ??????? ?????????, transliterated from Russian: "Dmitri Zhilunovich") (October 13, 1887 – April 11, 1937) was a Belarusian poet, writer and journalist, known under pen name Tsishka Hartny (Ciška 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.