Anton Luckievich

Luckievič was born in Šiauliai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire into the family of a petty nobleman of Nowina Coat of Arm who at the time worked as a railway official.

[4] In 1904 Luckievič was arrested in Minsk for distribution of revolutionary literature, but eventually released with his right to leave the city restricted.

[8] After the occupation of Viĺnia by the German troops in 1915 Luckievič became the vice-president of the Belarusian Society of Help for Victims of War.

[9] The German authorities had forbidden any political activity and this Society actually covered the clandestine Belarusian People's Committee that was also headed by Luckievič.

[9][13] In September – November 1918 Luckievič headed a Belarusian delegation to Ukraine and met there with Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi.

Luckievič made every effort in order for representatives of the Belarusian Democratic Republic to participate in the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920).

[14] The Belarusian delegation arrived to Paris five months after the beginning of the conference when the positions of the neighbouring countries (Lithuania and Poland) had been already heard.

The reason of such a late arrival to the conference was the initial lack of finances and the necessity to wait for a loan from Ukraine.

On 1 September 1919 the latter arrived there but neither could meet with the Prime Minister who had earlier left for Paris nor return to Paris because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, unlike many other countries, did not recognize the passport of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and refused to issue a diplomatic visa to Luckievič.

[10] After the creation of the Belarusian Peasants' and Workers' Union in 1925, he worked in its editing committee on the invitation of Symon Rak-Michajłoŭski.

[9][10] On 12 October 1927 Luckievič was arrested by the Polish authorities and charged with cooperation with German and Soviet intelligence services.

On 8 August 1940 he was charged with cooperation with the Polish intelligence service, the creation of counter-revolutionary organisations within the Belarusian nationalist circles and the establishment of the government of a bourgeois Belarus headed by the national fascist Luckievič.

It was written in 1916, before  the Belarusian Grammar Book by  Branislaŭ Taraškievič, 1918, but was discovered and published by the German Slavist Hermann Bieder only in 2017.

Anton Łuckievič after his graduation (1902)
The Luckievič brothers and Aliaksandar Ulasaŭ at the time of publishing Naša Niva
Photo of Anton Luckievič from the criminal case.
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