He had two brothers and sisters: Pavlo (engineer and home teacher), Alexander (agronomist), Maria (cook) and Nastya (actress).

In the spring of 1918 he returned to Minsk, where he worked as a teacher, sang in the Teraŭski choir, and headed a theatre group,[1][2] while also acting in the troupe of Vladislav Golubko.

In the 1920s, Čarot worked as the editor of several Belarusian newspapers and established himself as a poet, playwright and novelist on the wave of the policy of Belarusization.

[1][2][3] He is regarded as “one of the leaders of the Belarusian Soviet literature of the 1920s” whose works “reflect[ed] all the romantic impulses, contradictions and great illusions of his time”.

He largely disengaged from literary activity, publicly denounced some of his “national-democratic” colleagues and encouraged people to cooperate with the Soviet security services, State Political Directorate (GPU).

[2][4] He addressed the poem "I am the first to sign a severe sentence..." (1930) to V. Lastovsky, M. Horetsky, A. Dudar, U. Dubovka, J. Pushcha and others arrested in connection with the "Union for the Liberation of Belarus" case, in which he denounced them ("You hid under the broom like mice") for their support for national democracy.

The novelist and poet Masei Siadnev in his novel "Roman Korzyuk" mentioned how the Čarot was deliberately sedated after being tortured in order to find new names of "traitors" while he was unconscious.

His last poem "Oath", which declared his personal innocence, was written on the wall of the Minsk internal prison of the National Security Service, where Mykola Khvedarovich saw it and kept it in his memory: In 1939 I was transferred to a solitary cell.

Čarot poetically reframed the lyrics of the folk song, and Belarusian composer Uladzimier Teraŭski wrote the music to it.