Background
The year and the place of his birth are not exactly known.
The last note about T. Surta is dated to the year of 1701.
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Trafim Surta
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also known as
Trafim Ramanavich Surta
Education
It us unknown where T. Surta was studying, but he was a very educated and well-read person. Besides Belarusian and Polish, he knew Russian and Latin. T. Surta was a typical representative of baroque. He was a pious orthodox person.
Career
In 1679 T. Surta was a service person, who collected taxes, kept city’s accounts. It is indicated in the documents of Mogilev city council. In 1684 he was a superintendent and the tax collector of breweries in Mogilev. In 1689 T. Surta was elected as a juror.
Achievements
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T. Surta’s chronicles of Mogilev is a valuable monument not only of historiography, but of a historical prose of Belarus in a Baroque epoch. In 1887 his chronicles were published in Russian in shorthand form by M. Garnynski. The unabridged edition was published in 35 volumes by M. Ulashchyk and V. Chamyarytski in 1980. The oldest handwritten text, which was made by A. Trubnitski in the middle of 18 century, is saved in National Library of Russia
in Saint-Petersburg.
