His father, Uladzimir Prušynski, a manual labourer and mother, Sophia (née.
On March 4, 1907, he was arrested for anti-government activities at the underground press on Broad Street in Minsk, where was printed at the time an appeal "to all workers".
In July 1908 the Vilnius Court of Justice condemned him to lifelong exile in Siberia.
While working on a barge on the Lena River, he prepared a collection of his poems, Matshyn Dar (A Mother's Gift), and sent it to Vilnius where it was later published in 1918.
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