Belarus Envelope with Original Stamp (EOS)
Name: 125th Birth Anniversary of Yakub Kolas
Issue date: 2007 October 30th
Number: 071
Stamps Design: Yakub Kolas's State Memorial and Literary Museum
Yakub Kolas, Jakub Kołas (Belarusian: Яку́б Ко́лас, November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1882 – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstancy Mickievič (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
He wrote collections of poems Songs of Captivity (1908) and Songs of Grief (Песьні-жальбы, 1910), poems A New Land (Новая зямля, 1923) and Simon the Musician (Сымон-музыка, 1925), stories, and plays. His poem The Fisherman's Hut (Рыбакова хата, 1947) is about the fight after unification of Belarus with the Soviet state. His trilogy At a Crossroads (1954) is about the pre-Revolutionary life of the Belarusian peasantry and the democratic intelligentsia. He was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1946 and 1949.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Belarus Yakub Kolas EOS
Posted by Fan Ming at 11/15/2007 09:21:00 AM
Label: Belarus
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