Frantsishak Alyakhnovich
Belarusian/writer/journo/Gulag survivor
Died when: 60 years 360 days (731 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Frantsishak Alyakhnovich (March 9, 1883 in Vilnius – March 3, 1944 in Vilnius, Belarusian: ??????´??? ??´??????? ??????´???, romanized: Francišak Karalevic Alachnovic, Russian: ????????? ??´?????? ??????´??? (also ?????o????, ????? ?????????)) was a Belarusian writer, journalist descended from the Ruthenian nobility.
Alyakhnovich was a theatrical writer, director and journalist in West Belarus.He was editor of the newspaper ????????? ???? (Bielaruski zvon) published in Vilnius.
In 1926 he decided to stay in East Belarus after a conference in Minsk.Several months later he was arrested by the GPU and sent to Solovki prison camp.
He spent seven years in the Gulag and only in 1933 was he exchanged for Branislaw Tarashkyevich, a West Belarusian politician and linguist held in a Polish prison.
Alyakhnovich's Gulag experience became a basis for his 1934 book of memoirs ? ???????? ??? (U kapciuroch HPU, In the claws of the GPU), that was later translated into several languages.
During the Second World War, Alyakhnovich collaborated with Nazi Germany and was editor of the newspaper ????????? ????? (Bielaruski holas, Belarusian voice) published in Vilnius.
Apart from that, he was also one of the leaders of the Belarusian Independence Party - an illegal and underground organization led by Fr.
Vincent Hadleuski.In 1944, Frantsishak Alyakhnovich was assassinated.