Gantsevichi. Monument to Yakub Kolas.

In the center of Gantsevichi, on Oktyabrskaya Street, near the Museum of Local lore, there is a monument to the national poet Yakub Kolas (1882-1956). The real name of the writer is Konstantin Mikhailovich Mickiewicz.

The monument was erected in 2011, when the republican holiday Belarusian Writing Day was held in Gantsevichi. The sculptors Alesya Grushenkova and Pavel Gerasimenko became the authors of the monument. The prototype of the monument was the famous photograph of a young Yakub Kolas, from the time when he worked as a teacher in the village of Lyusino, Gantsevichi district. The monument is made of bronze and granite. 

Yakub Kolas is a classic of Belarusian literature, playwright, poet, translator, novelist, critic, linguist, public figure and teacher. Academician of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

He was born in 1882 in the Stolbtsovsky district. He was baptized in the Church of St. Anna in Stolbtsy. My father worked as a forester for Prince Radziwill. He learned to read and write himself, and then graduated from the national college in Mykolaiv region. Then he studied at the teachers' seminary in Nesvizh and at that time began to write his first works. After seminary, he worked in Western Polesie in the Gantsevichi and Pinsk districts.

During the First World War, he worked as a teacher in the evacuation in Russia and in 1921 was summoned by the government of the BSSR to Minsk. He worked in Inbelcult. He taught at BSU and other educational institutions. In 1926 he was awarded the title of National Poet of Belarus. During the Stalinist repressions, the poet's house was searched more than once, and he was summoned for interrogations.