Belarusian Poetry Portal

During six years (1902-1908) in order to support the family after his father's death in 1902, Ivan had not only to work on his homestead but was also looking for jobs in other places. He used to be a home tutor, a steward at the landlord's manor, a manual labourer, and for three years he had been working as an assistant brewer. This was the period of his first literary attempts....