Background
Kondrat Kondratievich Atrakhovich was born on March 5, 1896 in village of Nizok, Minsk region, Belarus.
interpreter novelist playwriter poet-satirist
Kondrat Kondratievich Atrakhovich was born on March 5, 1896 in village of Nizok, Minsk region, Belarus.
Kondrat Kondratievich studied at the parochial school in his native village, Uzda State Agricultural Professional Lyceum, 4-class city school in Stolbtsy, from which he transferred to the Koydanovo school (now Derzhinsk).
He took an external exam for the title of Тational Teacher. He graduated from the Gatchin school of ensigns. He studied at the literary and linguistic department of the pedagogical faculty of the BSU (The Belarusian State University).
Kondrat Kondratievich served in the Tsarist army from 1915, the Red Army from 1920 to 1923, and was involved in the campaign for the liberation of western Byelorussia in 1939 and the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).
His began his literary career in 1922, writing fables, poems, narrative poems, and short stories. Among his notable short stories are The Nettle (1925), Fables (1927), Neighbors (1928), and Live Phenomena (1930). Kondrat Kondratievich published the novel The Medvedichi in 1932. He was also a notable playwright, writing plays such as The Partisans (1937), a heroic drama, and He Who Laughs Last (1939), a comedy which earned him the State Prize of the USSR in 1941. Post-war plays include With the People (1948) and People and Devils (1958).
In 1925 Kondrat Krapiva was a member of the literary association "Maladnyak" (until 1926), then "Uzvishsh".
He was married and had four children.
