On 17 June, the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus hosted the evening “For the time and eternity...” in memory of the famous scientist, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, laureate of the State Prize of Belarus, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Mikhas Mushinsky.

Mikhas Mushinsky was engaged in the study of Belarusian literature all his life. He is the best expert at the creativity of Yakub Kolas, Maksim Haretski and Mikhas Zaretski.

Mikhas Mushinsky headed the Department of publications and textual criticism at the Institute of Literary Studies for many years. Multivolume editions of classics of Belarusian literature were prepared under his leadership. Among them are collected works of Maksim Bahdanovich, Piatrus Brouka, Maksim Haretski, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Ivan Melezh, and others.

Alexander Grusha, Director of the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor; Olga Yushkevich, Scientific Secretary of the Department of Humanities and Arts, Candidate of Philological Sciences; Alexander Lukashanets, First Deputy Director for Science at the NASB Center for Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research, Academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor; Radim Garetsky, Academician, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Professor; Anatoly Butevich, Deputy Chairman of the Republican Public Council for Culture and Art at the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, member of the National Commission of the Republic of Belarus for UNESCO; Ihar Kapylou, Director of the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics of the NASB Center for Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor; Sergei Garanin, Deputy Director for Science at the Yakub Kolas Institute of Linguistics, Candidate of Philological Sciences; Anna Zapartyko, Director of the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art; Zinaida Komarovskaya, long-term Director of the State Literary-Commemorative Museum of Yakub Kolas; Ludmila Sinkova, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor at the Department of History of Belarusian literature, BSU; Vera Mickiewicz, Yakub Kolas’s granddaughter; Tatiana Mushinskaya, writer, theater critic, journalist, scientist’s daughter intervened at the pledging event.

The event program included an exhibition of scientist’s monographs and books, documents related to his life and work, rare photos from the family archive.

Elena Vasilevich,
Candidate of Philological Sciences,
Department of publications and textual criticism,
Yanka Kupala Institute of Literary Studies,
Center for Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research,
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Photo by Valeria Guseva