Lutskievich Anton Biography

An interview with Anton Lutskevich’s granddaughter, And seeing the photo of her grandfather before and after interrogations, she was horrified: as if different people looked at her from the pictures. The story of her family is a twisted novel about testing, dignity and love. Pictures painted by her husband, a photo of their family archive, a bust of Ivan Lutskevich, who once stood in the Belarusian museum and was hidden during the war.

A copy of the manuscript letter hangs on the wall in the hallway. It is written in Polish, ”explains Alesya. The great -grandmother had a lottery ticket and prayed greatly to win. On the icon that hung at home, almost a tear appeared. And after the prayer, troubles began. She wrote a letter to her descendants: "Never ask God for money." Now we all have it as a reminder.

” When I studied, I worked in a special garden in the summer. And then I never regretted that I entered a surudagogue, because I have a good reliable piece of bread. And I have a job where you need to improve your qualifications all the time, there are always new challenges. I graduated in absentia on the Pedagogical Institute in Minsk. I had a choice: go to Shaulyai, a town in Lithuania, or to Minsk.

And there and there 3.5 hours drive. But I didn’t like Shaulyai so much: he was so small, so provincial. And Minsk is a big city, friends appeared there, and at that time the level of education was good. ” Alesi's parents spoke in Belorussian in Russian, since her mother is from Russia. In Belarusian, the husband speaks-the artist Ales Oblast. For a while they even kept the cottage in Belarus.

A wonderful place, a house above the river. For eight years they traveled there. But in the end we sold the estate. ” Their childhood passed among museum exhibits. The boys played with the rings of Vseslav sorcerer, white bear skin, a real weapon. They studied at the Vilnius Belarusian gymnasium. I was, because here they were absolutely forcibly entered, as in the entire Soviet Union, ”says Alesya.

Her father graduated from the Polytechnic. And then he joined his brother to the Belarusian region. He always assured: "My children are so smart that they will not say anything where it is impossible." And my brother and I understood that some things should not be voiced anywhere. ” But dad was a big optimist. He said: “What are you, I got into such a wonderful place, there was the whole inteligence.

I would never have met so many educated people in my life. ” And for me it was strange that after such a person without anger can tell about the camp and recall only positive moments. There was a "spy", an Englishman. They agreed that his dad would teach him Lithuania, and he would be English. Dad knew many languages: Latin, Belarusian, Polish, German, Ukrainian. And Anton is even more: Greek, Esperanto.

The dad had dystrophy in the camp. He was engaged in heavy physical labor. Even the gold was washed. Once he was lucky: the administration found out that he knew Latin, and put him with a paramedic. There were no drugs there. Dad recalled: ZEK comes and says that his head hurts a lot. He takes out a bottle and pours distilled water: drink. Such a placebo effect.

They met their mother on Kolyma. She went like a Komsomol member to work there. That dad is camp, she was not frightened. ” When Yuri returned to Lithuania, he could not live in Vilnius for several years: he was not allowed. The man settled nearby, worked as an engineer, and his wife - a telephone operator. Family relics are also not preserved.

The Lutskevichs had a family ring with the coat of arms. Once an incredible story happened to him. Ivan was stolen from Ivan. But when he went to antique shops in Warsaw, he found him on a window. Who knows, maybe he had been melted for a long time to metal. According to legend, he was made from the shackles of those who were in the Bastille. All that remains is an archive of documents that Alesin was collected by Uncle Lyavon.

Camp pictures, correspondence with various Belarusian figures, information about the museum ... Now Alesya stores them. She talks about the traditions that were in their family: “On March 25, we always went to Lukishskaya Square with white and red flowers. There was a tile about which they said that it was Kalinovsky’s grave. But dad said that there was nobody here: “They executed Kalinovsky in this place, and the body was hidden so that no one would wear flowers and read it.” Dad paid a lot of attention to my education.

All the time one of the historians came to him. Ermalovich, for example. " The son of Alesi studies in London on international relations and is very interested in history. The granddaughter learned about the last years of her grandfather’s life from the KGB archive. In Lithuania, he is open - relatives of the repressed can see the dossiers collected on their ancestors. There were photos of Anton - before interrogations and after.

These are two different people: completely different eyes, a look. The archive preserved an inventory of things that were under him during the detention. And these things themselves. There was a strand of his wife’s hair, which he kept after her death.My brother put those hair to mine then I was unpainted: “Look, one to one! He turned to the Belarusian KGB several times. The last answer came when dad was in the hospital.

I did not want to show him a letter, but I could not help but do it. She said then: "They did not condemn you, not to refuse the right to justify." Moreover, when we met, my husband knew what my last name means. It is important for me that Belarusians are a nation, and not some Russian province. It would be a shame to think that people, like the Brothers of the Lutskevichi, gave their lives just like that.

” The Belarusian events of the year Alesya monitored with excitement. One I decided to work particularly, and rest the second. And this second month was August. As a result, I did not rest at all, returned to work with a sick person, because it took so many emotions. Sometimes it became toxic, you go out into the street and think: no, this cannot be.

There was a moment when we began to be very proud of the people. And I was pleased that my son sees this Belarusian language is not just Home Language, but that the Belarusians actually have dignity, did not become a term. To see how people woke up, felt like a nation, was worth a lot. We no longer talked about anything else, except for this. We participated in the “Baltic Ways” family in that August, stood in a living chain, and I sang Bogdanovich’s pursuit there.

And Lithuanian nearby asked: “Can you not be louder? I am very afraid that once again Russia can ruin the whole thing. Since they want to have their own zone of influence in Belarus. I do not believe that Lukashenko will stay for many years, he is not an immortal one.