Kuźma Čorny
Mikałaj Karlavich Ramanavski, known under the pseudonym Kuźma Čorny 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 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.
