In the years 1895-1897 Kanstantsin Mitskevich lived in Albuts, helping his parents in the house and preparing in the meantime for entrance exams to the teachers' college; he did a lot of reading

In 1898 he entered the Niasvizh Teachers' College, graduating in 1902. When a student, he took interest in fiction literature: he read works by A. Pushkin, N. Lermontov, N. Gogol, A. Koltsov, N. Nekrasov, L. Tolstoy, I. Hemnicer, T. Shevchenko, I. Franko, A. Mitskevich

After graduating from the college, in the years 1902-1905, the young teacher worked in the Palesse region, in the villages of Liusina (now in the Gantsavichi district) and Pinkavichi (now in the Pinsk district)

On 1 September 1906, the Vilnia-based Belarusian newspaper Nasha Dolia (Our Fate) published his poem "Our Native Land", in which the author called his country "a poor land", "a God forgotten land"

The first half of the 1920s is a very productive time in the life of Yakub Kolas, his literary work and official career. In 1921, summoned by the government of Soviet Belarus, he returned to Minsk.

After the war, from the mid-1940s to his last days Yakub Kolas worked at the Belarusian Academy of Sciences