Maxim Goretsky biography

Maxim Ivanovich Goretsky is a Belarusian writer, literary critic, translator, folklorist, figure of the Belarusian national movement of the beginning of the 20th century. Maxim Ivanovich Goretsky was born on February 18 in the Mstislav region in the village of Malaya Bogutkovka, today almost depopulated. The Huts of the Goretsky - dark, cramped, with small windows, was lit by Luchina.

12 people were huddled in this house - the families of the brothers Ivan and Yakub. They worked a lot, often hurt, poor, and loved music, books, sought to learn children. It was here that the peasant boy received the first lessons of imagination and was imbued with a love of his native speech, listening to fairy tales, absorbing folk songs, which his mother Efrosinya knew so much.

He himself also sang all his life, played harmonica, balalaika, cymbals and puffs - all his favorite rural instruments, on which he could easily portray both ritual songs of his native Bogatovka, as well as romances or plays by Schubert. He learned in Gorki-he entered the local land surveying school, having dealt with a large competition, received a scholarship and came down to the society of lovers of young Belarusian literature.

His literary debut belongs to the same time - the story “At the Laza”, printed under the pseudonym, Maxim Belorus, followed by many others soon. His first author’s collection “Run” was released in Vilna in the year - at that time Goretsky was in the hospital with a severe wound: the First World War was going on, to which he went as a volunteer. Two months in the Vilnius hospital, the case was not corrected little - the wound did not heal, and the young writer went to Moscow, to the Lefortovo hospital, where "Trymali Yak at the tour." He returned to Mstislavl, knocked out a referral for treatment in Mogilev, where he had finally finally performed an operation-a surgeon without anesthesia pulled a fragment from the wound without anesthesia.

And again, Moscow, examinations and commissions that recognized Goretsky as healthy - and again the front, a serious illness that disturbs the wound, the circle behind the hospital and, finally, demobilization ... All these wanderings, front -line and hospital were reflected in many of his stories, in the stories “Tsihiy Plin” and “at the Immers -Vyne”, at the same time, at their time, who were considered to be considered their hour peaks of anti -war prose.

Goretsky was one of those who, according to hot pursuit, according to notes in notebooks, his own diaries, tried to comprehend and fix the events of war in the literature, subsequently nicknamed the forgotten - much more terrible thunderstorms blocked in the memory of the descendants of the First World War after the revolution, he settles in Smolensk with his brother Gavrila, and Yanka Kupala arrives there soon.

wife. Goretsky devoted a lot of time and effort to create dictionaries, as well as literary criticism: it was he who wrote the first history of Belarusian literature, critical articles and research accompanied him all his life. Another area that exciting its: Belarusian language and folklore is what it was nourished since childhood. The first in the collection of folk songs and melodies, he enters the song that his mother sang to him: you, chirovonaya Kalina, ah, I Cyaba Zlamil?

Zlamili meana buoy winds of the fierce Marazami returning first to Minsk, and then to Vilna, after the annexation of Poland, the Vilnius Territory becomes one of the fighters for the liberation of the Belarusian people from Pansky oppression. In the year, he is arrested and sent to the Vilenskaya prison of Lukishka - the place through which the good half of the Belarusian writers of the early twentieth century passed.

He is needed there - one of those who comprehend classical literature and creates a new one who can teach. Inbelult, this predecessor of the Academy of Sciences, needs his work with dictionaries, folklore - songs, fairy tales, folk vocabulary, his skill in the art of fiction and this is a work that requires a special gift. These are fruitful, happy years, despite the severity of the post -revolutionary, post -war time and awareness of the inevitability of a new war.