Education
Alexander Valitsky was born in Vilnius, graduated from Kharkiv National University. He studied playing the violin and the piano in Slutsk. Since 1847 A. Valitski studied Philosophy at Vilnius University and was taught
by outstanding artists.
Career
He was good at singing S. Manyushka’s songs and became later his first
biographer. In 1873 a book “Stanislav Manyushka” by A.Valitsky was published. Since
1856 till 1862 A. Valitsky worked for a weekly magazine “Ruch muzycny”,
published reports there (pen-name A. Zheleznyak, S. Pauza, etc.), an article “Minsk
Gubernia From The Music Point Of View” (1858. №49). In 1863 he found a
bookstore in Minsk. For taking part in the revolt in 1863 A. Valitsky was
exiled to Tambov. Since 1867 he lived in Warsaw, where published musical
reviews and reports in a weekly magazine “Kurier Warszawski”. Since 1872 A.
Valitsky worked as a printer’s reader in V. Anshyn’s printing house. In his
works in stylistics “Speech and Writing Mistakes…” (1886) and “The Gift From
The Printer’s Reader To The Typist” (1886) Alexander Valitsky suggested ways of
improving publishing business. He thought up some ideas about how to increase
the influence of “printed words” on spiritual and moral enrichment of people.
Since 1890 up to his last days A. Valitsky was a keeper of M. Radzivil’s
library funds and archive in Nesvizh. A. Valitsky’s bookstore was taken by his
sister Sophia Savitskaya. She held it for several decades. In 1882 S.
Savitskaya purchased a part of E. Azheshka’s bookstore in Vilnius. In 1890 she
opened a branch of this bookstore in Bobruisk. And in 1894 both bookstores were
auctioned.