Kuźma Čorny

Mikałaj Karlavich Ramanavski (Belarusian:Мікалай Карлавіч Раманоўскі, Russian: Николай Карлович Романо́вский), known under the pseudonym Kuźma Čorny (Russian:Кузьма Чорный, 24 June 1900 in Borki, Białystok County, north-eastern Poland – 22 November 1944 in Minsk, Belarus) was a Byelorussian Soviet poet, writer, dramatist, and opinion journalist. He studied at the pedagogue school in Nesvizh from 1916 until 1919. During the 1920s, he worked as a teacher in Slutsk. In 1923, he was working in the faculty of literature and linguistics (pedagogue department) in the Belarusian State University in Minsk. From 1924 to 1928, he worked as a journalist in a magazine Belaruskaja veska. In 1923, he was a member of a literary organisation Maladniak, and editor of Uzvychch for five years from 1926 until 1931. During the World War II, he lived in Moscow, working in a journal Раздавим фашистскую гадину and Belarus. Then he moved back to Minsk. He died on 22 November 1944, aged 44. He was an author of children's literature.

Kuzma Chorny in 1925