Background
A biographical information about Tapcheuski Feliks is very small. He was from a poor gentry family. In fal’varku Budischa, which belonged to Tapcheuskii, was only 30 acres of land and some serfs. His father died early. His mother,
Teklya Paulauna, contained a large family.
The monument of F. Tapcheuski has been preserved in the village Glybachka. G. Kahanouski and I. Zakonnikau discovered this monument.
Education
In 1849 F.Tapcheuski entered the Lepel District School, where studied his older brother Frants. Later they were joined by his younger brother Mikalai.
Career
After graduating from college, Feliks worked as an assistant clerk in the Vitsebsk district court (district police). The
atmosphere of the ancient city promoted cultural development of young F. Tapcheuski, and the specifics of the service provided the opportunity to learn more about life. In 1861 he quitted the court and he got a job a clerk in the village Ula
(Beschankouski raion).
The same position in one of the neighboring areas served his brother Mikalai. The brothers did not trust the royal authority, and in April 1863 they were dismissed from their posts. There is information that peasants solicited for the return of Feliks to the early post in Ula. Later he lived with his cousin in the village Krasni Stau ( Smolenskaya oblast’).
Tapcheuski Feliks governed the economy of the maentak (estate). In February 1864 to the orders of Governor the poet was arrested and sent to the Vitsebsk prison. Together with his brother Mikalai he was accused of joining the detachment of O. Grabnitski, which was formed in Lepel (the Vitsebsk region, April 1863). It was the joining against tsarism. soon the brothers were released. According to the recollections of his fellow-townsmen, in the last quarter of the 19th century, he owned the falvarak (household) of Lesav. He was married to Katsyarjna Anikhimouskaya, who did not share her husband's democratic views. He had two sons (one of them was Feliks) and his daughter Teklya. In his house was a large library. The poet was fond of music, folk songs, played the violin and sang well. He worked as a manager in maentak Uhvischy of a landowner A. Syalyava.
A talented poet became famous for droll poems. In this poems were described the local events and people. The poet caught the characteristic features. Most of his poems, which were not intended for publication, Feliks signed «Khvel’ka z Rukshenits». The manuscript «Khrestamatyya» (« The Reader») of B. Epimah-Shypil, a fellow-townsman of Tapcheuski, was his following poems: «Sausim Ne Toe, Shto Bylo» («It Is Not Quite That What It Was»), «Groshy i Praza» («Money
and The Work»), «En i Yana» («He and She»), «Vecharynka» («The Party»), «The Merrymaking of Polish landowner».
The poetic talent is very close to the talent of the author of the poem «Taras na Parnasse». Some researchers consider that Feliks was a writer of this poem, but it was written in 1855, when Tapcheuski was 17 years old.