Background
Grigory Romanovich was born on January 21, 1892 in Shakuny village, Grodno Governorat, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus) to a peasant family.
composer ethnographer folklorist choral conductor
Grigory Romanovich was born on January 21, 1892 in Shakuny village, Grodno Governorat, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus) to a peasant family.
Grigory Romanovich graduated from 2-year pedagogical courses in 1912 in Sventsyany (now Lithuania). He studied at the faculty of Literature of the Pedagogical Institute (Siedlce, now Poland), which was evacuated to Moscow, Yaroslavl, and Voronezh during the Firstst World War.
Grigory Romanovich worked as the Head of school of the 2nd stage in the village of Novogolskoye, Novokhopersky uyezd (now Voronezh Oblast, Russian Federation). He taught literature. Grigory Romanovich was the head of the volost Department of public education.He returned to Shakuni in June 1922 and later taught at the Belarusian Gymnasium of Vilnia (until 1928). In the 1930s, Grigory Romanovich conducted a great deal of cultural and educational work in Western Belarus.
In 1940 Grigory Romanovich organized the State Academic Choral Chapel of the Belarusian SSR and was its artistic director until 1970. Since 1907 he was engaged in collecting and studying Belarusian folk song folklore. Since 1922, Grigory Romanovich led a large cultural and educational activity in Western Belarus, gave lectures, articles, published collections of works by Belarusian poets (including Maxim Tank).
Grigory Romanovich died on March 23, 1978 in Minsk, Belarus.
Grigory Romanovich was married, had a son and a daughter.
