Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich

Vincent Dunin-Marcinkievich was born in February 1808 in the Babruysk region, into a noble family. After studying medicine, he settled in 1840 on an estate near Minsk, where he wrote most of his work, in Polish as well as in Belarusian, and assembled a theatre troupe. He wrote the libretto of an opera by Moniuszko. During the 1863 uprising, he was arrested for separatist propaganda, then released and placed under surveillance. He died in December 1884.

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• TheatreПінская шляхтаVincent Dunin-Marcinkievich · 1918not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain