From 25 October to 31 December, an anniversary exhibition "The people’s teacher" dedicated to the 130th anniversary from the date of the birth of Y. Kolas (1882–1956) runs at the National Library of Belarus (3rd floor, circular corridor).
An artistic word of the great bard has immortal, life-giving and wise teaching force. Yakub Kolas was an outstanding master in all his multifaceted work: talented poet, novelist, playwright, delicate teacher by profession and education, an artist and educator by the nature of his talent. Thanks to his works people learn how to live, work, love both a man and the Fatherland.
As the people’s poet of Belarus, one of the founders of the new Belarusian literature and literary language, social activist, scholar, teacher, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, honored scientist, Yakub Kolas had been working in the field of national culture for almost fifty years. He left a rich literary heritage, most of which is included in a recent scientific commented collection that consists of 20 volumes – Collected Works by the classic in 20 volumes (Sobraniye sochineniy klasika v 20 tomakh). The publishing house Belaruskaya Navuka released 18 volumes, but the last two will appear in November when will be the classic’s anniversary. Contemporary collections, the first and last lifetime collections take a centerpiece in the exposition.
His first editions Songs-Weepings (Pesnі-zhalby) (Vilna, 1910), a collection of stories The Man Disappeared (Prapaў chalavek) (St. Petersburg, 1913), the first complete edition of the poem Symon the Musician (Mensk, 1925) attract a special interest.
Numerous reprints of the classic’s works prove an eternal spiritual value of words and talent. For centuries his hymn praising a spiritual strength of the people – the poem Symon the Musicin – is well-known. The story The Bog (Drygva), the epic poem The New Land (Novaya Zyamlya) and the trilogy On the Crossroads (Na rostanyakh).
Kolas is one of the founders of the Belarusian children’s literature. He is an author of books for children and courses of their native language, in his lifetime Kolas attend to schools and students. The exhibition contains a facsimile The Other Reading for Belarusian Children. St. Petersburg, 1910 (Drugoe chytanne dzyatsey belarusov. Petsyarburg, 1910), a lifetime edition Mіtskevіch. K. The Principles of teaching native language (Mіtskevіch. K. Metodyka vykladannya rodnae mova) (1926), the poem The Adventures of Mikhas (Mіhasevy prygody), the edition The Fairy-Tales (Kazkі zhytstsya), etc.
The section “The Chronicler of His People” tells about a bright, challenging, eventful life of a well-known Belarusian classic.
The introduction to the book of memories written by Kolas’s eldest son Daniel Mіtskevіch To Love and Remember contains the lines of Ph.D. Gennady Kiselev which are close to almost every section of the book: "Memory is a life, antithesis to forgetting, oblivion and non-existence".
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