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Branislaw Tarashkyevich
Belarusian politician and linguist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Branislaw Adamavich Tarashkyevich[a] (Belarusian: Браніслаў Адамавіч Тарашкевіч; 20 January 1892 – 29 November 1938) was a Belarusian public figure, politician, and linguist.
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He first standardized the modern Belarusian language in the early 20th century.[4] The standard was later Russified by the Soviet authorities. However, the pre-Russified (classical) standard version was and still is actively used by intellectuals and the Belarusian diaspora and is informally referred to as Taraškievica, named after Branislaw Tarashkyevich.
Tarashkyevich was a member of the underground Communist Party of Western Belorussia (KPZB) in Poland and was imprisoned for two years (1928–1930). Also, as a member of the Belarusian Deputy Club (Беларускі пасольскі клуб, Byelaruski pasol’ski klub), he was a deputy to the Polish Parliament (Sejm) in 1922–1927. Among others, he translated Pan Tadeusz into Belarusian, and in 1969 a Belarusian-language high school in Bielsk Podlaski was named after him.
In 1933 he was set free due to a Polish-Soviet prisoner release in exchange for Frantsishak Alyakhnovich, a Belarusian journalist and playwright imprisoned in a Gulag, and lived in Soviet exile since then.
He was shot at the Kommunarka shooting ground outside Moscow in 1938 during the Great Purge[5] and was posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.
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- Belarusian: Браніслаў Адамавіч Тарашкевіч, romanized: Branislaŭ Adamavič Taraškievič,[1][2][3] Russian: Бронислав Адамович Тарашкевич, romanized: Bronislav Adamovich Tarashkevich, Lithuanian: Bronislavas Taraškevičius, Polish: Bronisław Adamowicz Taraszkiewicz
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