Career
While being in Ukraine Uzuk Farbotka went to Minsk regularly, met and corresponded with outstanding Belarusian
people of culture and society such as Yadvigin Sh., A. Burbis, Z. Veras, Z. Byadulya, A. Paulovich (U. Farbotka became his son-in-law) and others. In 1916 he joined Minsk cultural-patriotic association “Belarusian Hutka” (Byelorussian
Hut). In1919 he joined the troupe of the Byelorussian Soviet Theatre. Later he worked as an administrator in Belarusian Theatre in Minsk, andworked for literature and publishing department of People Committee of Education of Lithuanian-Belorussian USSR (Minsk, Bobruisk). It is possible that in the period between two wars U.
Farbotka lived and was engaged in science in Poland. U. Farbotka’s first poem “Zruwnawow…”
(Was Jealous…) was published in the newspaper “Nasha Niva” in 1912. In the poems “Dark Night”, “Sonnet”. “Spring
Again…” he disapproved of the World War I antisocial character. U Farbotka’s works are imbued with anguish for his motherland’s tragic fate. His poems “For Motherland” and “Prayer” are full of belief in the better future of
Belarusian people. U. Farbotka knew Maxim Bagdanovich personally and took his poetic experience as an example. U. Farbotka acquired successfully M. Bagdanovich’s poetic system, wrote a series of sonnets and triolets. Deeply
emotional sonnet “In Memory Of Maxim Bagdanovich” (1918) was written by U. Farbotka on the premature death of his literary mentor. After The October Revolution U. Farbotka published some materials on the improvement of the Belarusian spelling. In his “Sounds of the 1914-1918 World War In Belarusian Poetry” literary-critical
article U. Farbotka underlined the antiwar character of a number of the best Belarusian poetic works. In 1920 he published the literary-historical article “Belarus In Songs”, where he tried to find out connections between Belarusian
poetry and the national liberation struggle. (1918) was written by U. Farbotka on the premature death of his literary mentor. After The October Revolution U. Farbotka published some materials on the improvement of the Belarusian
spelling.
