Description of the attraction
The State Literary and Memorial Museum of Yakub Kolas was opened on December 4, 1959 in the house where the people's poet of Belarus lived. Located at 66a F. Skaryna Ave.
Today it is impossible to imagine contemporary Belarusian literature without Yakub Kolas. The great Belarusian poet sang the song of revolution and war, glorifying the heroic deed of his people.
Yakub Kolas (Konstantin Mikhailovich Mitskevich) was born in 1882 in the village of Okonchitsy. Since 1906, he led an active revolutionary struggle, published poems and poems with a vivid revolutionary content. In 1928, Yakub Kolas became an academician, during the war he wrote poems about the heroic deed of the Belarusian people, after the war, in 1946 he became the chairman of the Belarusian Peace Committee, since 1953 he was the editor of the Russian-Belarusian dictionary.
A two-storey house with a garden, in which the museum is located, was built on the territory of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The house was rebuilt several times and in the form in which we can see it now, it was built in 1952 for the 70th anniversary of the poet.
The museum houses an exposition with a total area of 319 square meters, located in 10 rooms, telling about the creative path of Yakub Kolas, about the famous guests who visited this house, the interiors of the study and the bedroom were restored.
In the garden of Yakub Kolas, his favorite pines are preserved, under which he liked to sit with friends, other trees planted by the poet's hands. The poet lived a modest, simple life. Everything in the museum has been preserved and recreated in the same form as it was during the life of Yakub Kolas.
