Branislaw Tarashkyevich

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Branislaw Tarashkyevich
Браніслаў Тарашкевіч
Portrait of Branislaw Tarashkyevich
Born	(1892-01-20)20 January 1892 Matsyulishki, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
Died	29 November 1938(1938-11-29) (aged 46) Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Nationality	Russian Empire, Poland, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	linguist, politician

Branislaw Adamavich Tarashkyevich^[a] (Belarusian: Браніслаў Адамавіч Тарашкевіч; 20 January 1892 – 29 November 1938) was a Belarusian public figure, politician, and linguist.

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.

• Media related to Branisłaŭ Taraškievič at Wikimedia Commons
• 2 pages from original Belarusian grammar by Branislaw Tarashkevich
• Belavusau, Uladzislau (21 November 2017). "Rule of Law in Poland: Memory Politics and Belarusian Minority". verfassungsblog.de. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

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