Bogdanovich Maxim is a literary critic, translator, poet who praised his native Belarus and expressed in lyric lines an unlimited, sincere love for his people. A classic of Slavic literature, who lived a bright but very short life and left behind a rich creative heritage that tells about people and the time in which they lived.
Maxim Bogdanovich: biography
Maxim was born on November 27 (December 9), 1891 in the family of a famous historian and ethnographer and from childhood he showed great interest in literature. This enthusiasm was facilitated by the presence of an extensive paternal library, and the family in which the boy grew up was very well-read and poetic. Maxim's grandmother was a noble storyteller, and any story for her became a whole creative act, uttered in a chant and captivating a fairy tale plot. Also, the grandmother, known in the Kholopenichsky district as a witch-healer, knew many customs, proverbs, riddles, traditions, sayings, folk remedies, was a bearer of folk antiquity; they often came to her for advice, and in all solemn occasions they invited her as a manager.
The youth of the Belarusian poet
The father studied the boy, trying to provide the child with the necessary knowledge as extensively and easily as possible. When Maxim was 5 years old, his mother died of tuberculosis.
The family moved from Grodno to Port, where the young man enrolled in training at the Nizhny Novgorod male gymnasium. During this period, Bogdanovich tried himself in the art of poetry, while intensely interested in politics and actively participating in student and student demonstrations. Indeed, in the courtyard was 1905 ... For his activities, Maxim Bogdanovich was on the list of “unreliable” people, which later negatively affected his fate.
The first samples of the pen
Bogdanovich’s first poem, “Music,” was published in 1907 in the Slavic newspaper Nasha Niva. In this work, the author told about Music, who walked a lot on the earth and played the violin, meaning the main character Belarus with its long-suffering fate and hope for quick changes for the better.
Even away from his homeland, Maxim spoke Belarusian, feeling great sympathy for his native word. The love for everything Belarusian was supported in the youth not only by relatives, but also by teachers who felt in the youth a sincere and piercing craving for the culture of their country.
Maxim Bogdanovich: interesting facts
In 1908, the Bogdanovichi changed their place of residence to Yaroslavl. In this city, Maxim, who dreamed of enrolling at Leningrad University for a course in Belarusian studies, Shakhmetov, graduated from a law school, while actively continuing to create.
In his lyric poems “Spring will come”, “Over the grave”, “Darkness”, “Pugach”, “In a foreign land”, “My native land! As sworn by God ... ”, published in“ Our Field ”, the theme of social oppression of Belarusians and their national revival clearly sounds, in a short lyric story“ From the songs of a Belarusian man ”expressed deep faith in the creative powers of the peoples.
The creative period of Bogdanovich
Meanwhile, tuberculosis claimed the life of his brother Vadim; in 1909, Maxim Bogdanovich himself fell ill. Weak health and material difficulties became an obstacle to the life of a promising writer, who devoted his whole life to literary work. The author consciously prepared himself for poetry, taught fiction (elegant literature), Slavic Sanskrit, using the Nosovich dictionary as a desktop tool.
The writer also translated many works of foreign authors (Polish, French, Ukrainian and Russian) into Belarusian, and devoted a significant part of his time to the study of Slavic and Western European languages and literature.
Key themes of the works of Bogdanovich
During the years of study at the Lyceum, Maxim Bogdanovich, whose photo can be seen in the article, writes a lot and actively publishes in local print runs and magazines, as well as in Russian publications. He gained fame not only in his country, but also abroad.
In 1913, the only book written in Belarusian was published in the life of the poet, “Wreath”, with 92 poems and 2 poems. The circulation amounted to 2000 copies.
The key theme of the works of Bogdanovich was the experience of the Belarusian people, the idea of the liberation struggle against the tsarist empire. During this period, poetic lyrical stories “Veronica” and “In the Village” appeared - a tribute to the woman. The "Romance" by Maxim Bogdanovich is a well-known work of the lyrics of love experiences. The theme of death passed through all creativity; the author believed in eternal life. His poems "At the Cemetery", "Free Thoughts", "Thoughts" are imbued with Christian calm and a sense of divine immortality. The author constantly communicates with the stars and looks not up to his feet, but up.
last years of life
In 1916, Maxim returned to his native Belarus, where he got a job in the provincial food committee. Health spoiled. Knowing about the terrible and inevitable denouement, Maxim worked tirelessly. In 1917, with the funds raised by friends, he went to improve his physical condition in Yalta. It was his last spring. May 25, 1917 the poet was gone. The last brainchild of the Belarusian author these days was the compilation of the Slavic primer.
Maxim Bogdanovich was buried at the Autsky fraternal cemetery of the city of Yalta, a monument was erected to the Belarusian writer in 12 kilometers from this place. Also, a monument to the poet was erected in Minsk, and streets in the cities of Belarus were named after him .
The poet’s archive was kept by his father, Adam Bogdanovich, who hid the sons of the manuscript in a chest, which he then carried to the cellar and buried under ice. In the process of suppressing the Yaroslavl uprising in 1918, the house of the Bogdanovich was burned, the ice melted, and water penetrated into the burnt chest. Adam Bogdanovich dried, smoothed out damaged manuscripts and handed them over to the Institute of Belarusian Culture, which became interested in Maxim’s work. In 1923, his father wrote "Materials for the biography of Maxim Adamovich Bogdanovich."