Yakub Kolas, Jakub Kołas, real name Kanstancy Mickievič (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences. He wrote collections of poems "Songs of Captivity" (1908) and "Songs of Grief" ("Песьні-жальбы", 1910), … Wikipedia
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