Radoshkovichi. Monument to Yanka Kupala.

In the small town of Radoshkovichi, which is located on the Minsk-Molodechno highway, the Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity stands in the center of the town. It was in this church that the classic of Belarusian literature Yanka Kupala (1882-1942) was baptized in 1882. In 1982, a monument to the national poet was erected on the central Sovetskaya Street in Radoshkovichi.

Kupala was born in the village of Vyazynka, which is located a few kilometers from Radoshkovichi. The fate of the poet is closely connected with this place. In 1902, the poet's father died and Kupala stayed in the house for the owner and had to go to work. At first he worked as a traveling teacher, and then as a clerk for a judicial investigator in Radoshkovichi.

He visited here often in 1904-1906, when he became friends with the writer Yadvigin Sh, who lived in the neighboring village of Karpilovka. It was at the writer Yadvigin Sh, whose real name is Anton Levitsky, that the young Kupala first saw a large library of books in the Belarusian language, which significantly influenced the poet's worldview. Researchers think that it was Jadwigin Sh who convinced Kupala to write his works in Belarusian, and not in Polish. Yadvigin Sh is called by the literary critic the godfather of Yanka Kupala, as a poet.

In the summer of 1913, the legendary Kupala play "Pavlinka" was staged in Radoshkovichi. And the author himself was present at this production. In August 1919, Kupala came to the Kalisberg village near Radoshkovichi to visit his sister Leokadia Romanovskaya. Here Kupala wrote his works "My science", "In our field ...", "From the fallen glory".