The Pukhavichy Regional Museum, located on the grounds of the Bonch-Asmalouski estate in the village of Blon, keeps materials about the natives of these places – the "Maladnyak" writers: Uladzimir Khadyka, Mikhas Charot, Anatol Volny, Ales Dudar.
We continue to introduce you to the live project "On the Wave of Time, Throughout the Life", which is regularly updated with new material. This time we are talking about the place where the memory of the "Maladnyak" writer Uladzimir Khadyka (1905–1940), whose anniversary we celebrated in 2020, is perpetuated.
There is a Bonch-Asmalouski estate in the village of Blon, Pukhavichy District, one of six in the area, and the only one that has been fully preserved. Now there is now a local history museum of Pukhavichy, which stores materials about the natives of these places and those who visited this region.
Pukhavichy District Local History Museum. Photo by T. Lauryk
A corner has been set up here dedicated to Pukhavichy district native Uladzimir Khadyka, a talented poet and translator, one of the founders of the informal association TAVIZ, "Drink and Snack Society". The museum staff has compiled the little material held in museum collections in Belarus about the author.
We present the writer's corner in the Bonch-Asmalouski estate, where his photographs and books are placed. A place of honour is also given to photographs of books from the National Library of Belarus. The full texts of some of them can be found in our project: "Sunitsy (Strawberries)" (1926), "Radasny Budzien (Happy weekdays)" (1935). Photographs of the Bonch-Asmalouski estate museum have been added to the virtual section dedicated to the writer on the library's website.
Pukhavichy District Local History Museum exhibition Agust 2021 Photo by T. Lauryk
On the Day of the Literary Association "Maladnyak" at the National Library of Belarus on 16 January 2020, a section of the virtual project dedicated to Uladzimir Khadyka was presented; at the round table "In the Footsteps of Maladnyak Members", Mr Anatol Vierabiej, PhD in Philology, the compiler of the most complete edition of U. Khadyka's works made a report about the writer.
Anatol Vierabej speaking. 16.01.2020. Photo by N. Zharskaja
The event has been organized as part of the joint project “On the Wave of Time, Throughout the Life”, realized by the National Library of Belarus, the State Museum of History of Belarusian Literature, "Zviazda" publishing house (in particular, “Maladosts” journal) and the Belarusian State Archives–Museum of Literature and Art over 2019–2023.
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