Background
GORETSKIY, Maksim was born on February 18, 1893 in village Malaya Bogot'kovka, now Mstislavl’ Rayon, Mogilyov Oblast. Son of a peasant.
Belorussian writer and literary historian
GORETSKIY, Maksim was born on February 18, 1893 in village Malaya Bogot'kovka, now Mstislavl’ Rayon, Mogilyov Oblast. Son of a peasant.
1913 graduate Gory-Goretsk (now Gorki) Agronomical College. 1918 studied at Smolensk Institute of Archeology.
From 1914 student, Saint St. Petersburg Pavel Military College. Later on active service in army. 1917, after being wounded in action, discharged.
1918 in Smolensk worked for Smolensk Soviet newspaper Izvestiya and newspaper Zvezda, organ of Northwestern Oblast Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. 1919-1922 in Vilnius first on government work with newspaper Zvezda, then teacher, Vilnius Belorussian High-School. Worked for ed staff, newspaper Belaruskiya vedamas’tsi.
1922 for his connections with Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic arrested by Polish authorities and exiled to Lithuania From 1923 in Minsk, worked for Institute of Belorussian Culture. From late 1928 with Belorussian Academy of Sciences.
Simultaneously history teacher, Belorussian State University. 1926-1928 taught Belorussian language and lit at Belorussian Academy of Agric in Gorki (Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic). 1912 first work printed.
Writer and lit historian of great talent. 1930 together with his brother, the economist G. I. Goretskiy, a member of the Belorussian Academy of Sciences, arrested and sentenced to five years’ hard labor for "nationalist” activities. Served sentence in Vyatka (now Kirov).
1935 released and permitted to live in Kirov (former Pesochnya), Kaluga Oblast. Taught Russian lit at high school. 1937 re-arrested by People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and sent to a concentration camp in Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Religious edicts impose irrational rules on people’s behaviour.
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.