{"id":596931,"date":"2026-11-01T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=596931"},"modified":"2026-11-01T19:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:35:48","slug":"belarusian-writers-honour-the-memory-of-compatriots-in-prague-on-dziady-photo-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-writers-honour-the-memory-of-compatriots-in-prague-on-dziady-photo-report","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Writers Honour the Memory of Compatriots in Prague on Dziady \u2014 Photo Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The festival of contemporary Belarusian culture, \u201cPradmova\u201d, is underway in the Czech capital. On Dziady, the day of remembrance of ancestors, Belarusian writers, publishers and representatives of the local Belarusian community visited Ol\u0161any Cemetery and the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague to lay flowers and light memorial candles.<\/p>\n

Poet and translator Andrej Khadanovich<\/strong>\u00a0and poet and chair of Belarusian PEN Taciana Niadbaj\u00a0<\/strong>shared photographs and the brief caption \u201cIn Search of Their Own\u201d on their social media accounts.<\/p>\n

The Prague Dziady route included the final resting places of prominent compatriots and figures of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.<\/p>\n

Piotr Krecheuski<\/b><\/strong> \u2014 Chairman of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (1919\u20131928). It was he who, in 1921, secured the relocation of the BDR government\u2019s headquarters to Prague, making the Czech capital the main centre of Belarusian political emigration.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Taciana Niadbaj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vasil Zakharka<\/b><\/strong> \u2014 Chairman of the BDR Council (1928\u20131943), and his wife, Pelahia. He devoted his life to preserving the BDR state archive and continuing the work of Belarusian institutions in Western Europe.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Taciana Niadbaj<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikhal Zabejda<\/b><\/strong> \u2014 an outstanding Belarusian opera singer and teacher from the Hrodna region. Zabejda\u00a0sang in 16 languages and brilliantly performed internationally renowned arias, including the Neapolitan song \u201cDicitencello vuje\u201d and arias from the operas \u201cRigoletto\u201d, \u201cLa Traviata\u201d and \u201cEugene Onegin\u201d. At the same time, he always included a condition in all his contracts and programmes: the second part of the concert had to consist exclusively of Belarusian songs.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Andrej Khadanovich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The writers also visited the New Jewish Cemetery and the grave of world-renowned literary classic Franz Kafka<\/b><\/strong> \u2014 author of the celebrated novels \u201cThe Trial\u201d, \u201cThe Castle\u201d, \u201cAmerica\u201d and other works.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Andrej Khadanovich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The memory of those who preserved an independent Belarus and respect for the world\u2019s literary heritage came together on a single Prague Dziady route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The festival of contemporary Belarusian culture, \u201cPradmova\u201d, is underway in the Czech capital. On Dziady, the day of remembrance of ancestors, Belarusian writers, publishers and representatives of the local Belarusian community visited Ol\u0161any Cemetery and the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague to lay flowers and light memorial candles. Poet and translator Andrej Khadanovich\u00a0and poet and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":596927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6ae76a75de08d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Writers Honour the Memory of Compatriots in Prague on Dziady \u2014 Photo Report"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142375,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596934,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596931\/revisions\/596934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}