Background
He was born in the family of the president of the court of Minsk border Christopher Nezabytouskii.
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Aljaksandar Nezabytouski
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He studied at private boarding schools in Warsaw in 1835-38 at the Faculty of Mathematics of Derptskii University.
In 1839-42 he served in the Office of the Marshal Igumen. In 1844-47 he visited France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England. This trip was taken for treatment, seeing famous places the Mediterranean, and the study of foreign languages. But first of all he intended to publish his manuscripts abroad (illegally imported abroad), to show the world his views on life, the current civil and political and economic issues, to advocate for democracy and national liberation struggle of the oppressed people of Tsarist Russia.
Career
He issued two books anonymously in Vilna and 5 in Paris (his authorship was proved only in 1960). Talented publicist and writer, a thoughtful critic and philosopher, he has shown himself in his work as a Democrat, confident and enemy of despotism and the royal monarchy, bold freethinker and atheist . Nezabytouski urged the people to fight against social and national pressure, demanded the abolition panschiny and denied the existence of God. Wide popularity enjoyed critical sketch on a course of Adam Mickiewicz "Slavic literature," where he disputedt clerical spiritual ideas of the poet, as well as against the conservative-romantic trends in Polish poetry of the time. Aljaksandar - author of memoirs, "My Notes" (Paris, 1845), dedicated to the rising of 1830-31, calling himself a Lithuanian (Belarusian).
He was arrested For illegal attempts of publishing his and others' publications abroad, was in Pinsk, Minsk and Vilna prisons, was sentenced to the loss of the nobility and the existing rights and hard labor in the mines in Siberia. Neazabytouski died before the execution.
