Paulinka (play)

[1]) Written in 1912, it was printed first time in 1913 in St. Petersburg by the publisher The Sun Will Peek into Our Window As Well (be:Загляне сонца і ў наша аконца) [2][3] Paulinka is a daughter of a petty nobleman ("village szlachtic") Sciapan Krynicki.

Paulinka and Saroka are planning to run away, but Yakim is arrested for his revolutionary views, ratted out by Bykovsky.

[3] The play grew out of the short story And the Willows Rustled (А вербы шумелі) started by the author.

that the prototype of Paulinka was Kupala's lyrical friend Paulina Myadzyolka [be], but in later years she denied this.

[4] In 1952 a Russian-language TV play was released directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi and starring Lyudmila Senchina.