Poetry was a recurring theme in the Kostrovitski Family, the Family of The Cross, of which the Belarusian social and political activist, poet and artist who used the pseudonym Karuś Kahaniec ('The Lamp') and Apollinaire, poet, art critic and forefather of Surrealism were notable members. This anthology of poems by Kahaniec and other Kostrovitski relatives, with biographical material, evokes powerful images of the turbulent times in which they fought, endured, loved and lost.
A part of 'Triptych Kostrovitski Трыпціх Кастравіцкі', a kaleidoscopic tapestry of intertwined stories of Godwinsons, Gediminids, Rurikids, Ostiks, Kostrovitskis, Bonapartes, Habsburgs, Venceliks z Vrchovist a na Tresti and Moczarskis - from Saxon Wessex and England and Viking Denmark, to Rus, Lithuania, Poland, France, Austria, Bohemia and elsewhere, from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era.
The State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature (Государственный музей истории белорусской литературы) held The Kostrovitsky Literary and Documentary Exposition in Minsk from 10 September to December 2020, timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the birth of Apollinaire. The National Historical Archives of Belarus, the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, the National Library of Belarus, the Republican Centre of National Culture and the Predmestie Gallery took part. The first editions of this book and the other titles that together form 'Triptych Kostrovitski Трыпціх Кастравіцкі' were featured in the exposition.
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