Other publicaions of Belarusʹ:

100 landmarks of the region

A collection authored by Igor Prokopovich was published, in which he briefly introduces the reader to the memorable places of the Postavy region. The historical part is beautifully complemented by colorful photographs of places, highlighting the main points associated with certain places of our homeland.

Two protected areas linked by nature

Ivan Rei

In the annals of Belarusian fine arts of the XX century the creative legacy of Ivan Petrovich Ray, honored art worker of Belarus holds a special place. The creative search for the artist's multi-faceted. From the country's first monumental and decorative works of the 1960s, at the facilities to easel plot and thematic paintings, portraits, landscapes, full and deep psychological drama, and fine inks restraint - such a wide range of its aspirations. Since childhood Ivan Ray dreamed of becoming an artist, but the path to art was not easy for him. He belongs to the generation who grew his black wing burned the war - to a generation of "wounded game."

Ivatsevichy district

Ivatsevichi District is an administrative unit in the north of the Brest Region of Belarus. The administrative center is the city of Ivatsevichi. As of January 1, 2023, the population of the district was 50,922 people.

Igumenski county

Under one cover, a collection of articles, essays, telling about the places and people Pukhovichi, Cherven districts of Minsk region and other parts that were once united in Igumen County.

Icon Painting and Altar Painting of Belarus XII - XVIII centuries

Icon and altar painting of Belarus of the 16th - early 19th centuries

The album-catalog contains Orthodox, Catholic icons, as well as icons of the Uniate period, which lasted more than two centuries on our lands. This is part of our ancient history and national culture. The works of this publication provide an opportunity to get acquainted with the unique artistic values ​​of Belarus in the 16th - early 19th centuries, to get an idea of ​​the originality of the local icon-painting school, focused on the European art of altar painting. They demonstrate the significant contribution of Belarusians to the world treasury of culture.

Isaac Borowski

A joint project of Belarus Publishing House and the National Art Museum of Belarus. The series presents more than 30 artists from Belarus, whose works are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the National Art Museum and other museums around the world.
Isaac Yulievich was born in Vitebsk, and this city, its beauties and the people the artist met were the source of his inspiration. The future master of the brush received his first creative instructions in the studio of Yuri Pen. Many years later, he will paint a picture depicting his first teacher. Isaak Borovsky is called a virtuoso of painting. He worked in different genres, but he showed himself most clearly in portraits. They differ in juicy, saturated color, plasticity of the composition. And the artist considered his future wife, transferring the features of her face to paper.
“When we met, he offered to paint my portrait, and then I often posed for him,” recalls the widow of the painter Antonina Moiseeva.
And the artist wrote “The Woman in a Shawl” from her friend, Galina Chernaya, who told how Isaak Yulievich asked her to put on a shawl and put her hand on the armrest at ease. The works of Isaak Borovsky are in the National Art Museum, in the funds of the Belarusian Union of Artists, institutions and private collections of our country, as well as Germany, the USA, Israel, Poland. The regional museum of local lore contains more than a hundred paintings and graphic works.

Outlines are different: drawings and sketches of Hetman Janusz Radziwill

"Outlines are different" is the name of the collection of hand-drawn drawings and drawings of Hetman Janusz Radziwill, which is a unique collection and has no close analogues in the Eastern European region. They depict a large number of buildings and landscapes of entire cities of the eastern lands of Belarus and Ukraine, which were severely damaged or completely destroyed during the war of 1648-1667. At the same time, this collection is a reflection on paper of the author and one of the most interesting and controversial figures in the history of the Rzeczpospolita in the 17th century. The book publishes drawings of the hetman from the National Historical Archive of Belarus and the Russian National Library, attributes them, analyzes the themes of images and individual plots, as well as the context of their creation.

From Minsk to Vilnius

Akim Shauchenka

Wingedness

The book of the famous poet and novelist Sergei Davidovich is included poems of different years. The works are marked by deep reflections on the fate of Belarus, love for man and native nature.

Ales Adamovich

Alexandra Posledovich

Biography and works of the famous Soviet artist, Honored Artist of the BSSR Alexandra (in the Belarusian version of the investigators sometimes call her Alesya) Posledovich (1918-1988). A joint project of Belarus Publishing House and the National Art Museum of Belarus. The series presents more than 30 artists from Belarus, whose works are exhibited in the permanent exhibition of the National Art Museum and other museums around the world.
Each mini-album tells about the life and career of the artist, his works are presented.

Aliaksei Kuzmich

The album includes reproductions of 135 oil-painted works by A. Kuzmich, a well-known modern Belarusian artist.

Anatol Aleksandrovich.

Apocalypse on schedule

Apalinar Garausky

Apollinary Gilyarievich Goravsky, also seen as Horawski (born January 23, 1833, Uborky, Minsk Governorate - died March 28, 1900, Kirilovich, Saint Petersburg Governorate) was a Belarusian painter.

Stories

In novels and stories placed in the collection, Michael Zaremba holds a sincere and confidential conversation with the reader, and also raises sensitive issues of education in the family.

Arlen Kashkurevich

A. Kashkurevich (1929-2013) is one of the founders of modern art in Belarus.

Archeology of Belarus

Islands on land

Bibliography study. Theory: manual

White-winged bird

The new stories of the famous Belarusian writer A. Yakimovich tell about teenagers who get into various dramatic situations and cope with them with dignity.

Belarusian ornament

Tapestry in Belarus

Belarusian calendar. 1994

Belarusian calendar. 1995

Belarusian Criminal Investigation

This unique publication is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Belarusian Criminal Investigation. It reveals the stages of creation, formation and development of organs of criminal investigation department, contains biographical information about leaders of the criminal investigation department, memories of veterans. Most of the documents and photographs are published for the first time.

Belarusian People's architectural decoration

The publication is dedicated to one of the most interesting and, but virtually unexplored forms of folk art - traditional folk decoration of housing, the Belarusians mostly wooden. The historical circumstances of its development, evolution during the XIX-XX centuries art features, regional and local characteristics. With rich material collected by the author of half a century of research, choose the most characteristic examples of carved decoration, which is determined by a plinth, panels, top, porch, doors, corners, doors and other components of traditional construction.

Belarusian landscape of the second half of the XX - XXI century

Belarusian folk rites

Folk rites in Belarus: description of the most typical ancient rites and music.

Belarusian national blacksmithing

Belarusian Heart

Belarusian Cuisine

Belarusian Cuisine

Belarusian national costume

Belarus. The land under white wings

The album of the famous Belarusian photojournalist Anatoly Kleshchuk “Land under White Wings” is the last collection of photographs he worked on personally during his lifetime.
Throughout his creative life, Anatoly Kleshchuk, through the lens of a camera, introduced readers and photo enthusiasts to the cultural and historical values ​​of the country, its rituals and traditions, outstanding personalities and ordinary people with difficult, interesting destinies.
The golden piggy bank of the master’s creative heritage also includes photographs of Belarusian nature - from landscape sketches to portraits of representatives of the local fauna. And they are all imbued with a sincere feeling of affection and love for his native land. Such works can be seen in the new photo album. Earth under white wings... This is what the famous Belarusian writer Vladimir Korotkevich once called Belarus, meaning that against the background of the blue sky of our country, you can often see storks - beautiful stately birds that have long become an indisputable symbol of the Belarusian region. This apt metaphorical expression best reflects the theme of the photo album of landscapes, which was released by the "Belarus" publishing house. Anatoly Kleschuk created a truly wonderful and even fabulous image of our country in his artistic photographs - Earth under white wings...

Belarus at Seven Frontiers

Belarus through the ages to the future

The book is about the origin of the statehood of Belarus, on the complex historical path at the crossroads of Europe in the vortex of wars and revolutions, which took our country and became a State of the people, its significant achievements over the years of independence. The publication is richly illustrated.

Belarus through the ages to the future

The book is about the origins of the statehood of Belarus, on the complex historical path at the crossroads of Europe in the vortex of wars and revolutions, which took our country and became a State of the people, its significant achievements over the years of independence. The publication is richly illustrated.

Belarus in the Great Patriotic War

The book sheds light on the major events that took place on the territory of Belarus from the moment of the Nazi invasion in June 22, 1941 and till the liberation of the Republic in July, 1944: the Nazi takeover of the Belarusian cities and their liberation by the Red Army forces, defense and offensive operations of the Soviet troops, emergence and activities of the partisan and underground movements, etc.

Belarus during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

In the book, in the form of questions and answers, based on accurate historical facts and materials, the main events of the Great Patriotic War, as well as the features of international relations on the eve of the war, are considered. The publication is prepared taking into account the latest achievements of historical science.

Belarus in the years of the Great Patriotic War. 1941-1945

Historical facts and materials on the main events of the Great Patriotic War; military actions on the territory of Belarus; governmental forms and methods during the war; international relations and diplomacy; participation in creating the United Nations Organization in 1945.

We have only one Belarus

Belarus. Path to Victory

It reflects not only the military operations on the territory of Belarus and governance practices in war. The features of international relations during the Second World War, as well as the Byelorussian part in the creation of the United Nations.

Brest Region

Budslau Basilica of Ascension of Virgin Mary

Description, history and artistic peculiarities of the basilica.

Viktor Gromyko

Belarusian artist. Honorary member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, professor. Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR. People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR. Member of the Great Patriotic War. Viktor Alexandrovich Gromyko is a man of his difficult time, which shaped the worldview of a whole generation. The experience of the war years determined a special understanding of the value of man, land, time and memory. These simple words, which took on the scale of categories, became the basis of the life and creative path of the artist, a talented portrait painter, a master of subject-thematic paintings and landscapes.
The name of the artist has become synonymous with monumentality, spatiality and breadth, which can be achieved in landscape art. He strove to "embrace the immensity - the whole vast world", therefore, in his works he embodied a planetary sense of its scale.

Vital Tsvirka

Due to this full color album the lovers of fine arts get a chance to enjoy the brilliant works of painting and watercolor of the acknowledged Belarusian artist V. Tsvirka (1913-1993). The majority of the artist's creations are devoted to the landscapes of Motherland as well as to historical scenes and some of the Soviet political figures. The readers have also possibility to learn major facts from the biography of the talented painter.

Witold Bialynicki-Birulia

Witold Kaetanovich Bialynitsky-Birulya is a Russian, Soviet and Belarusian landscape painter, People's Artist of the BSSR and RSFSR, and a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Member of the Society of Mobile Art Exhibitions, the Union of Russian Artists. People's Artist of Belarus (1944) and the RSFSR (1947). Honorary Academician of the BSSR Academy of Sciences (1947), active member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1947). Bialynitski-Birula's paintings impress the viewer with emotion, a necessary measure of generalization, which does not lose the specificity of the place. The landscape painter skillfully developed the barely noticeable nuances characteristic of a particular time of day, a particular time of year. Paintings and numerous etudes are distinguished by a special subtlety, softness and unique lyricism, depth of perception and transmission of wildlife.

Vitebsk region

Valery Slavuk

Virtuoso Slauk Valery. Belarusians call him my Albrecht Durer. He has a strong compositional thinking. Slauk Valery professor of the department of graphics of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Album of the famous Belarusian graphic artist. Thanks to the talent and painstaking work of Valery Slavuk has developed its own way to the knowledge of the truth. Its graphics is not just a special food for thought, but also an interesting way to open the unusual in the usual world.

Valyaryana Zholtak

Valeriana K. Zholtok (1919-2000) - is an outstanding Belarusian artist, a student of "Vitebsk art school."

City Tours

Book in an entertaining form introduces the history and culture of major Belarusian cities: Minsk, Brest, Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno and Mogilev. Information is presented simply and concisely, the publication is full of creative tasks.

Vasyl Sharangovich

Vasil Sharangovich - Belarusian graphic artist, teacher. Honored Artist of the BSSR (1978). Honored Cultural Worker of Poland (1986). People's Artist of Belarus (1991). The Professor (1981).
He worked in the field of book and easel graphics. Creativity is characterized by a variety of graphic techniques and stylistic techniques, clear drawing, emotionality and deep content of images.

Vasil Sharangovich

Vasily Petrovich Sharangovich (born January 14, 1939) - Belarusian artist. Working in the field of book and easel. Nephew of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the PBC Basil Sharangovicha. The work of People's Artist, laureate of the State Prize of Belarus Vasily Sharangovich, outstanding master of easel and book graphics. The artistic heritage V.Sharangovicha - epic works, book illustrations, landscapes and portraits. The artist works and easel graphics, which makes extensive use of national motives, symbolism and metaphor.

Poems

Eyes and dream

Collected Works in 2 Volumes

Visual art of Belarus of the XXth century

History of the Kupala Theater

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Kupala Theater, two books have been published: The History of the Kupala Theater and Scenography. Publications immediately became a bibliographic rarity. The Kupala residents themselves consider September 14, 1920, as their birthday, when the Belarusian State Theater was founded here, in the building of the city theater on Engels Street in Minsk. He acquired his full name later. So, the Great Patriotic War found the theater troupe during a tour in Odessa, from where, without returning to Minsk, they had to go to Tomsk. Already there, in 1944, the theater director Lev Litvinov staged the famous "Paўlinka" by Yanka Kupala, which later became the hallmark of the theater. In the same year, the theater was named after the Belarusian classic. “Thanks to the masterful embodiment of the national literary heritage, the Kupala Theater has become one of the cultural symbols of our country,” the head of state noted, calling his team a constellation of talents. “Today it preserves and enriches the glorious traditions of the Belarusian performing arts and rightfully has a high national status”. On August 12, 2020, the actors and staff of the National Academic Theater. Yanka Kupala recorded a collective video message and demanded to stop using force against protesters who disagree with the falsification of the results of the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus. On August 13, the theater staff also spoke in favor of a recount of votes in the presidential elections in Belarus with the participation of independent observers. On August 16, theater director Pavel Latushko and other actors of Kupalovsky signed an open appeal to the Belarusians, and in particular to the army, calling for an immediate resignation and the initiation of criminal proceedings against those who gave “criminal orders” and “all officials guilty of or involved in these crimes ". On August 17, theater director Pavel Latushko was fired. On August 26, 58 actors and staff were fired from the theater.

History on beds

History of world art. XVIIth-XVIIIth centuries

Ice-crusted ground

The book includes screenplays, the plots of which are determined by truthfulness, deep psychological analysis, and an extraordinary outlook on life. Hypocrisy and falsehood, drunkenness and resentment, betrayal and moral depravity are condemned, complex relations between parents and children, the search for happiness and love are shown. The theme of spirituality is widely represented - the main thing in the work of Fyodor Polochanin. It is offered to playwrights, writers, workers of cultural institutions, teachers and simply readers.

Towns of Belarus on Old-Time Postcards

Parallel text in Belarusian and English. Postcards with views of Belarusian towns, of which the majority were provincial centres, began to come out in the 1890s, with district centres appearing on them in the early XXth century. Postcards were mostly black-and white and were issued in smaller numbers than today. They carried all types of information and advertising, and brought manufacturers and sellers additional revenue.

Hauryil Vaschanka

Gavriil Kharitonovich Vashchenko (1928-2014) - Belarusian Soviet painter, People's Artist of the BSSR (1988). Honored Artist of the BSSR (1977). Professor (1980). Laureate of the State Prize of Belarus (1984).

Blazonry of Belarusian gentry

History of arts

Voice of conscience

The book is devoted to spiritual education according to the Orthodox tradition.

Gomel region: Place names according to the legends and fables

Frantsysk Scaryna's Engravings

The album presents all the known theme illustrations, illuminations, vignettes and initials of the great Belarusian first-printer and enlightener Frantsysk Skaryna. A wide range of illustrations of the subjects from the Old and New Testaments, original iconography, the diversity of masterly engraving techniques make the Skaryna's engravings a brilliant phenomenon of the East Slavonic book design of the first half of the XVIth century.

Grodno region

GRODNА

Grodno is the Circle dance of friends

Battle of Grunwald

Dzikae palyavanne karalya Stakh

The historical-detective story tells about the tragedy that took place in one of the dead ends of old Belarus, about the conspiracies of the obscurantist people, greedy for gold and power, about the brave people who stood in their way, about treachery and nobility, about the terrible fate of the doomed of the noble Janowski family.

Where Neoman chatters with the bush...

Magnetic Storm Day

In the stories and narratives in the collection, Mikhas Zaremba speaks sincerely and trustingly to the reader, as well as raises painful issues of family upbringing.

National Unity Day

The Day of National Unity is timed to the anniversary of the Red Army's Liberation Campaign in 1939. The result was the reunification of Western Belarus with the BSSR, as well as the reunification of Western Ukraine with the Ukrainian SSR. These events became an important part of Belarusian historical memory. Unity, which was restored in 1939, helped the Belarusian people to survive the Great Patriotic War and even today continues to contribute to the further development and strengthening of Belarusian statehood.

State Art Museum of BSSR

The album will plunge you into the atmosphere of Belarusian, Russian and World art beginning with the XIIth century, take you around the museum halls on a particularly impressive, informative and unforgettable excursion, present you a brilliant opportunity to marvel at and contemplate alone with the finest art works.

Public holidays of the Republic of Belarus

The book tells about the essence of state, republican, religious and other holidays and memorable dates that Belarusians celebrate today. The reader learns about the history of their celebration, their main meaning and influence on the worldview of Belarusian citizens, as well as about national traditions, many of which have been formed over the centuries.

"For the better hardness ..."

The book contains 29 most ancient parchment documents from the collection of the National Historical Archive of Belarus, covering the period from 1391 to 1566 reflecting various aspects of socio-economic and socio-political life of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The documents form several internally related complexes that allow us to trace the circumstances of the existence of specific estates and the life-activity of their owners over several generations. Most documents are published for the first time.

Dokshytsy land

Drahichyn region

The flower of Venus's shoes and the rarest bird in Europe, the flying squirrel, depicted on a guillotine coin of the National Bank of Belarus, are peculiar symbols of this picturesque place. The history of Drahičyn region is the ancient town of Zditau-na-Yaseldze, the village of Tarakan - once the residence of the ruler of the Basilian order, the fortress of Jaber, in front of which was the powerless army of Charles XII, the only stronghold of the Struve Geodetic Arc and the Polesie life of Eliza Orzeszko. Today's Drahičyn region is the only apron museum in the world, the uniqueness of local dialects, rich material and spiritual culture. The winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus and the National Literary Prize in the category "Prose", Honored Cultural Worker of the Republic of Belarus Ales Martinovich tells about all this.

Breathing of early autumn

Byelorussian Painting of XII - XVIII Centuries

The Belarusian fresco and icon painting of the XIIth - XVIIIth cc. has a number of peculiar feachers (the traditions of the Byzantine, old Russian and West-European art as well as the presence of local art school). Commemorative inscription in the front page.

Zhyrovytsia Holy Dormition Monastery

The Holy Assumption Zhirovichi Monastery is a male stavropegial monastery of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, located in the agricultural town of Zhirovichi, Slonim District, Grodno Region. One of the main centers of Belarusian Orthodoxy and the country's largest architectural ensembles of the XVII-XVIII centuries.

Eternal way of life

The second book from the three-volume edition of folk wisdom and imagination includes Belarusian omens and superstitions relating to incessant wheel of life - from man's birth till the end of his earthly way of life. Folk calendar are also presented in the book.

Zinaida Antonovna Astapovich-Bocharova

Joint project of "Belarus" publishing house and the National Art Museum of Belarus. The series presents more than 30 artists from Belarus, whose works are exhibited both in the permanent exhibition of the National Art Museum and in other museums of the world.
Each mini-album tells about the life and creative path of the artist, presents his works. The text is printed in Belarusian, Russian and English. Zinaida Antonovna Astapovich-Bocharova (1898-1993) - Belarusian artist. Sister of graphic artist Arkady Astapovich. Author of many works - portraits and landscapes.

Mysterious temple

The action of the story takes place in a small district town. Entrepreneur Menkin settles in a building that was once a temple. Menkin and his wife Svetlana feel on top of happiness. But their joy is overshadowed by unexpected events that soon begin to take place in the temple and terrify the hosts. Menkin calls for help of former paratrooper Andrei. He hopes that Andrew will help him in this difficult moment. The book also includes poems and choruses.

Act of the Republic of Belarus "On Elections of the Local Deputy Board Deputies of the Republic of Belarus"

Spells

Spells from the central part of Belarus collected by students at the border of the last and present centuries.

Zaslaue Historical Archaeological National Park

Preserved memory of the lost land

Monuments of ethnography and folk art from the collections of the Museum of Ancient Culture NASB from Gomel and Mogilev region affected by the Chernobyl accident; the unique cultural heritage of the region.

Collection of prose

Goldmaking of Belarus

The book is the first attempt to comprehensively reflect the various branches of goldsmithing in Belarus. Today, almost all European countries have generalized work on gold mining on their territory. Thus, our publication will to some extent fill this gap for Belarus and will be useful for the formation, strengthening and development of the national idea and ideology. The book for the first time lists more than one and a half thousand zlotys who worked on our land or were associated with it by their origin. It will interest everyone who is indifferent to the native history and culture.

Zegarmistrs of Belarus

The land of the natives, or the Roads of the Gomel Passage

The book is a series of historical and local lore articles dedicated to the Gomel region, more precisely to its three districts: Vetka, Gomel and Chechersk. They are located on the river Sozh and form the so-called Gomel Passage - an area that in the IX-XII centuries was inhabited by tribes of natives.

Land of Ferdinand

Names from non-existence

Name in the chronicle

The historical figures of the past Belarus: Rogvolod, Rogneda, Svatopluk Turowski, Bryachislav of Polotsk, Vseslav Magician, Gleb Mensky, Rogvolod Borisovich of Polotsk, Vladimir, Vytenis, Gediminas, Algirdas, and others. Belarus interpreted the role in the political life of Europe in the Xth-XVth centuries. The reader learns about the struggle of the Polotsk principality for its independence, the formation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the war of the Belarusian-Lithuanian state and the Teutonic Order, the Golden Horde, the Moscow principality, Poland. It provides a lot of little-known historical facts.

Dissidents

When someone else's soul is yours

It often happens that in life a person finds himself in a difficult situation. Why does this happen? There are many reasons, but most often he is led into a dead end by personal self-confidence, envy and, of course, the desire to quickly get a lot of money. To get out of a dead end, you need to go back. However, it happens that there is simply no way back, and a person needs to search, open a new path. This is what the literary heroes of the writer Viktor Kuntsevich do. In the development of events, the author uses a dynamic plot and elements of mysticism, which captivates the reader and makes him inextricably follow along with the literary heroes.

The Kalozha Church

The Kalozha Church of St. Boris and Gleb Kolozhskaya church - architectural jewel of ancient Grodno, in the tradition of Byzantine temple architecture, a unique monument of ancient orthodox architecture of XII century in Belarus and throughout Eastern Europe. Kolozhskaya church is located near the Old Grodno castle, which centuries ago was the residence of the Grand Duke Vytautas. Borisoglebskaya Church, Kolozha Church or simply Kolosha - one of the surviving architectural structures of Belarus during the period of Ancient Russia. The only preserved (in a distorted form) monument of Black Russian architecture. Located on the high bank of the Neman River. Together with the complex of monuments of Castle Hill, it is declared a historical and architectural reserve. It is among the objects proposed by the Government of Belarus as candidates for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Composers of Belarus

The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus (revised and supplemented)

Kapylshchyna

"To love our dear Belarus", it is not necessary to visit different lands, but it is enough to visit the Kopyl region. The winner of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus and the National Literary Prize in the category "Prose", Honored Cultural Worker of the Republic of Belarus Ales Martinovich tells about this region, its rich history, many wonderful people who were once born or lived here.

Brief sketch from the history of Belarus

Carp in fur

The book by Belarusian writer and scientist Alyaksei Yakimovich is opened by short stories, mostly detective stories. Extreme situations, exciting giggles and extraordinary plots - this is how we can describe these works, where the main characters are modern teenagers and adults.
The book also includes lyrics and "anti-virus" choruses.

Kastus Kacan: Painting

Kastus Khorashevich

A joint project of the publishing house "Belarus" and the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. The series includes books about more than 30 artists from Belarus, whose works are presented both in the permanent exhibition of the National Art Museum and in other museums around the world. The goal of the project is to popularize national culture, art and history, to familiarize a wide range of readers with the work of artists from Belarus. Konstantin Khoroshevich was the oldest artist in the city and an iconic figure in the history of Belarusian painting. In total, he painted over 500 canvases. In the last years of his life, he actively created galleries of outstanding Belarusian scientists, culture and art. Konstantin Khoroshevich's works are in the Art Fund of the Republic of Belarus, the Fund of the National Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Belarusian Art, the Francisk Skorina Center in Minsk, the Belarusian National Library, the Minsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, as well as in private collections in Poland, Great Britain, Germany, the USA, Israel, Canada.

Flowers of elecampane

У кнігу вядомага пісьменніка Уладзіміра Ягоўдзіка ўвайшлі творы пра прыроду роднага краю, пра птушак і жывёл, якія насяляюць нашы лясы. Аўтар знаёміць таксама юных чытачоў з мінулым Беларусі, са значнымі гістарычнымі падзеямі і славутымі асобамі.

Slutsk Duches

Svarog's Wheel

A literary remaking of the Slavic mythological subjects and ideas about pagan deities.

Landscapes of Lidchyna

Spring of folk art

The book includes works of folklore: games, tongue twisters, proverbs, tales and others. The book also describes the rules and children's games.

Lida

Literary journey through the land of Kupala and Kolas

Literary travels on the land of Maxim Bogdanovich

The reader will walk the paths and trails of Maxim Bogdanovich's land, not getting tired to be surprised, admire, feel like a real traveler. He will get acquainted with the places that are connected with the life and work of the poet, as well as with the places of those writers who lived or worked here. Every kilometer of the Vilna and Dauginava paths will remind of people and events that will unite Maksim Bahdanovich into a single past and present land.

Lithuanian mistress

Leanid Marchanka

This is a gorgeous album that contains the reproductions of works by a distinguished artist Leanid Marchanka, who used to express his feelings and dreams through his art, be it drawing, etching, lithography or water-colour. Marchenka's art is a kind of continuation of his individuality, though not its mere reflexion but an embodiment of the artistic and everyday understanding of reality. The compiler's commentaries will assist the reader in better understanding of the author's works.

Leonid Shchemylev

Joint project of "Belarus" publishing house and the National Art Museum of Belarus. The series presents more than 30 artists from Belarus, whose works are exhibited both in the permanent exhibition of the National Art Museum and in other museums of the world.
Each mini-album tells about the life and creative path of the artist, presents his works. The text is printed in Belarusian, Russian and English. People's Artist of Belarus Leonid Shchamyalev can be an example of how to create one's own destiny. Leonid Dmitriyevich Shchymalev did not live to his century by only three years. On February 5, our compatriot, who during his lifetime was called a legend of national art, could turn one hundred years old.
To be born in a city where there is art and Yudel Pen is already a chance. Shortly before he was murdered in his workshop in 1937, Penn approved the album of the future artist, saying that he needed to keep working. It seemed that the young man's future was decided.
After finishing the seven-year course in Vitebsk, he firmly intended to continue his education at the Art School, but the war began. Eighteen-year-old Leonid was drafted into the army in 1941. He reached the Kursk arc and in 1943 returned to Belarus to participate in the "Bagration" operation.
While still a student, the artist found his own style. He was ahead of his time and did not conform to Soviet canons.
The then Soviet academic school did not suit the author's sweeping, expressive brushwork and generous color scheme. Light-shade dynamic effects, bright colors created an unusually free spirit of the work. The lack of detail and the expressive manner were accepted long ago somewhere in their Paris, but not in the allowed Moscow-Soviet environment.
By the way, "Wedding" was lost for several decades. The author found it, by chance, behind the scenes of TYUG. Alena Aladova gladly took it to the collection of the Art Museum.

Chronicles of the Republican Festival of National Cultures in Grodno

LITART

There is a unique school of type in Belarus, based on the traditions of manuscripts and publications by F. Skaryna and the developments of the avant-garde art of the 20th century.
This album will acquaint you with the work of Belarusian graphic artists, typographers and calligraphers from the art association "LitArt", which was founded about 20 years ago.

Nikolai Kuzmich

An album with works by a famous artist. Nikolai Kuzmich is a talented artist-jeweler who revived the technique of ancient Byzantine cloisonne enamel of the XXII century, recreated the national shrine of the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, one of the five best masters in the world working in a unique technique of hot enamels. From 1992 to 1997 he worked on the restoration of the lost national Christian shrine of the Cross of Euphrosyne of Polotsk, which is now housed in the Polotsk Savior-Euphrosyne Monastery.

Mikalai Mikhalap

M. Miholap (1886-1979) was a Soviet artist-ceramist, director of the National Art Museum of Belarus in 1939-1941.

Minsk. Heritage of the old City

Mir. Castle

The publication tells about the past and present of Mir Castle - an architectural monument of the XVI-XX centuries, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the settlement in which it is located.
The uniqueness of the book is that it contains not only modern photographs, but also very old ones from foreign archives and museums.

Mir Castle

The Mirsky Castle Complex is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus located in the town of Mir in the Karelichy District of the Hrodna region.

Mythology of the native land

The book analyzes the Belarusian people and the mythology shows its reflection in a variety of forms and genres of traditional oral-poetic creativity. Genre pecularities are considered, particularly, ideological thematic content.

Mikhail Savitsky

Mikhail Chepik

Soviet Ukrainian painter and graphic artist. Member of the USSR. Mikhail Maksimovich Chepik was born on November 21, 1920 in Kiev.
After graduating from the Kiev Art School in 1940, he entered the Faculty of Painting of the Kiev State Art Institute. But his studies were interrupted by the war and in 1941 Mikhail Chepik was drafted into the Red Army.
After graduating from the Kharkiv Armored School, he fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Marked with military awards. After demobilization, in 1946, he returned to classes at the Kiev Art Institute, which he graduated in 1951. His teachers were: AA Shovkunenko, TN Yablonskaya, KN Eleva. Father of the famous artist Sergei Chepik (born 1953), now living in France. He took part in republican art exhibitions since 1949, All-Union - since 1957, foreign - since 1953. Чепик М.М. - Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He worked in the field of easel painting. Master of thematic painting. Main works: "Vysotniki", "Domainshchiki", "Shakhter", "Hockey players". For the Jubilee Shevchenko Decade he painted "Roaring and groaning Dnieper wide" (1961) and "Great sorrow" (1964). At the same time, the artist is constantly working on still lifes, portraits and landscapes. Makes creative trips to Ukraine, Russia, Central Asia and outside the Soviet Union. In the 1970s he created a series of pastels with views of Moscow, Yugoslavia, France and Czechoslovakia. Personal exhibitions were held in 1970 in Kiev and Belgrade, in 1971 - in Moscow, in 1973 posthumous - in Kiev. The artist died on December 9, 1972. He was buried in Kyiv in the Baykovo cemetery.
Works by MM Chepika are presented in the collections of art museums of Ukraine, in gallery and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain, USA.

Mikhas Stanyuta

Mikhail Petrovich Stanyuta (Belarusian Mikhail Pyatrovich Stanyuta; 1881-1974) was a Belarusian Soviet painter, portrait painter, graphic artist, and teacher. Member of the All-Belarusian Association of Artists, All-Belarusian Association of Bibliophiles (1927-1929). Father of the Belarusian Soviet actress Stefania Stanyuta. MP Stanyuta worked mainly in easel painting (thematic painting, portrait, landscape, still life) and graphics. Subject-thematically, the canvases are distinguished by the relevance of the subject, expressiveness of composition and drawing, generalization of form, pastosity and color saturation: “Glass Factory” (1924), “Concrete Workers” (1927), “Construction of the University Campus” (1928), “On Construction” (1929) ), "Foundry" (1931).
A significant place in the artist's work is occupied by a portrait: "Refugee", "Self-portrait" (both 1921), "Portrait of a daughter" (1923), "Portrait of the artist M. Filippovich" (1925), "Student" (1927), "Drummer" ( 1928), "Belorus" (1944), "Boy in a Cap" (1949), "Portrait of an Old Man" (1952), "Kolkhoz Woman" (1961).
M.P. Stanyuta painted a number of landscapes: Twilight, Evening (both 1920), Roads and Spruces (1923), Destroyed Minsk (1944), Central Square (1951), Winter in the Park » (1965).

Mahiliou region

Mogilev region

The Dnieper region has a very rich history, but, according to the author, is still little known in terms of sightseeing. A trip to the Mogilev region will acquaint the reader with ancient cities and towns, unique corners of Belynich and Knyazhyts, Shklov and Polykovich, Sukharov and Radomli, Mstislav and Pustynok, Krychev and Malyatich, Cherikov and Slavgorod and others. At the end of the trip the traveler is waiting for the regional center - Mogilev with its architectural monuments and landmarks.

Covenants of the ancestors of my Small homeland

The collection contains folk-ethnographic and mythological material recorded in field expeditions in the territory Zhitkovichi district, characterized by locally-regional peculiarities of usage of traditional folk spiritual culture.

Coins of Belarusian Antiquity

Historical review of Belarusian monetary art.

Minsk bewitched

The publication contains legends and stories of millennial Minsk. In it you will learn about the mysteries and secrets of Svisloch, Snake Mountain, Minsk dungeon, the gang "Black Cat" and much more.
The book is for anyone who is interested in the history of the city and loves it.

Michael Kasimir Oginski and his Estate of Muses in Slonim

Muzeums Belarus

Polotsk Museums

The Museum, named after V.K. Byalinitsky-Birulya

Vitold K. Byalinitsky-Birulya, a People's Artist of the BSSR and RSFSR, an academician of the former USSR Academy of Arts, is one of the most prominent landscape painters of Belarus. The Museum of the artist contains more then 100 his canvases, many of which have been included in the given album. The album contains as well a kind of foreword in the Russian and English languages, illustrations of the paintings. Appendix includes a list of illustrations.

On the banks of the Dnieper and Druts'

Novogrudok

History, places of interest, architectural monuments of the ancient Belarusian town of Navahrudak.

Novopolotsk

Nadia Hadasevic-Leger

Nadezhda Khadasevich (Nadia Leger, 1904-1982) is a well-known artist and legendary person who played a really invaluable role in the art of the XX century as well as in the cultural relations between the Soviet Union and France in the era of the Iron Curtain. As a kind of artist with bright individual handwriting and versatile interests, N. Khadasevich was engaged in easel painting and graphics, turned to the art of mosaic.

On the airways

A new book of poetry by the laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus, one of the most penetrating and emotional poets of Belarus Mikhail Bashlakov was composed of poems written over three years (2017-2019). "Without a conscience there is no poet" - the constant creative and life credo of Mikhail Bashlakov. He is a poet of a wide thematic range and multi-colored mood. Along with the lyrical landscape-watercolor lines sounds epic, civic-patriotic poetry, imbued with anxious reflection and bitter unrelenting pain for the fate of the Fatherland and the people, for the fate of the native language and artistic poetic word ... The book is intended for a wide range of readers.

On crosses

Napoleon Orda

Album dedicated to the great artist, composer, pianist, teacher and educator of the 19th century. Napaleon Orda is a Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish writer, musician, composer, artist, sculptor, teacher. Descended from the Pinsk gentry, was born in the family estate Vorotsevichi, Minsk province. At baptism, he received the name Napoleon, which was fashionable at that time - for which year the French emperor waged victorious wars. The Belarusian gentry hoped that after the victory over the Russian Empire, Bonaparte would revive the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
What this man did for Belarus cannot be called anything other than a feat. Several thousand engravings, with documentary accuracy showing the state of historical monuments - it is from his engravings that they are being restored today. Unfortunately, two thirds of the objects depicted in the figures no longer exist.

Folk art of Belarus XVI-XXI. Ceramics, art fabrics, wood carving and painting, straw weaving and inlay

Folk art of Belarus XVI-XXI. Ceramics, art fabrics, wood carving and painting, straw weaving and inlay

Slavic folk tales

Essays on the Beshenkovichi region

The book uses photos from the archives of the Beshenkovichi district Museum of History and Local Lore ”, Zara district newspaper; from the personal archives of Yauhen Shklyareuski, Leanid Akulenka,
Victoria Dolgoleva, Roman Keremsha, Elena Solovieva,
Elena Starodubtseva, Vasily Ovchinnikov and the Chernyavsky family The authors express their sincere gratitude to the staff of Beshenkovichi District Executive Committee, District Council of Deputies, Department of Ideological Work, Culture and Youth Affairs of Beshenkovichi District Executive Committee, Department and Educational Institutions of Beshenkovichi District, Center for Budget Organizations, and staff of Beshenkovichi District Historical Museum, the central district library, the editorial office of the district newspaper "Zara".
The publication was published by order and with the financial support of the Ministry of Information of the Republic of Belarus

Natan Voranau

National Library of Belarus

The National Library of Belarus is 100 years old. Library as a symbol of the value of knowledge and endless knowledge. The total network of libraries of the republic includes about 7,000 libraries, the coordinating and methodological center of which is the National Library of Belarus.

Uninvited guests

1461 ... Crimean Tatar detachments raided Belarus. In the pages of the story, readers will be able to get acquainted with the boys Basil and Roman, the girl Marysya, who were taken prisoner by the Tatars. To protect the children, all the adult men from the surrounding villages rose.
Part of the collection consists of artistic hypotheses "How did the phraseology". This is a new genre of literature that will not only introduce readers to interesting phrases, but also allow them to look into the past.
The book includes original poems about love and for reflection, poetic interjection in all letters of the Belarusian alphabet.
For a wide range of readers.

Njasviž

Unconquered man

In 2017, the People's Artist of Belarus Sergei Ivanovich Selikhanov, one of the brightest domestic sculptors of the Soviet era, turned 100 years old. His works, along with the works of Zair Azgur, Andrei Bembel and Alexei Glebov, characterize the whole artistic epoch of the country - the twentieth century. It is a time of great changes and accomplishments, great tragedies and changes, a time of creation of grandiose sculptural ensembles and epic monuments.

How far is Belarus from us: Where are we going?

Do you want me to speak Belarusian? No problem!

The book is intended for self-study of the Belarusian language. The theoretical material is given in an accessible form. Practical tasks will help to master the phonetic aspects of the language.
The book contains a list of proverbs and sayings, a Belarusian-Russian dictionary.

Journey into the world of Wonderland

Beneath the Sky of Belarus

The author of the album is an avid traveler of the Belarusian countryside, sincerely in love with his native land, passionate about the profession for life, which inspires and gives many reasons to create colorful books, including the album you hold in your hands.
As if on a whim, on a seed, on a small drop, I collected and compiled this book, having traveled more than one thousand kilometers across our country. There were so many roads and paths that I lost count and stopped counting them. I always knew the purpose, meaning and fruits of such roads, so my professional box was replenished, from time to time there were photos in it, which over the years also please the eye and warm the heart. The most precious thing for them is the land given to you by fate. And this - the beauty of ancient landscapes, the harmony of ancient and modern architecture, the peculiarity of natural seasons, the leashes of the inhabitants of the Belarusian forests and swamps - birds and animals, identity and cultural traditions that are always in sight, from time immemorial with us.
I do not intend to attribute to myself the role of the discoverer of an unknown land in the center of Europe like Yegga Ipsodpia: today Belarus is already a widely known country in the world. The main thing for me is to show our compatriots and our guests the beauty, uniqueness of the ancient land of Belarusians, help to notice and appreciate its unusually attractive image, look differently even seen many times and rediscover something new.

Polonaise for warriors

Wormwood-water

The first book of the novel-chronicle "Wormwood-water" begins with the biggest flood in Polesie. which was in 1979. Through their heroes. the chief of which is Alexei Zhilevsky, the author shows life in the USSR, the inexhaustible desire of people to live freely and happily. Love and hate, victory and defeat. good and evil. Poverty and wealth are constant companions of the heroes of the river-chronicle “Wormwood-water”. A tangle of tangled and tragic contradictions is just beginning to unravel and unfold, showing what should be: man does not live by bread alone.

Wormwood-water

Carthage must be destroyed - such a decision. as is known to have been adopted by the ancient Romans. They made every effort to establish dominance in the Mediterranean region, for which they destroyed the Phoenician state with the capital Carthage. History repeated itself. But not for the collection of land in one state, but on the contrary - the division of a huge territory of the USSR into 15 sovereign republics, one of which - Belarus, its sovereignty was immediately enshrined in the Constitution. The first years of Belarusians' life in the post-Soviet space, their desire and aspiration to be independent, free, rich - this is what formed the basis of the third book "Small Rain" of the novel-chronicle "Wormwood-water".

Wormwood-water

Chernobyl. It is in the second book that the terrible accident at the nuclear power plant is shown, which brought physical and spiritual torment to people, put many in front of a choice - to remain human or to forget all moral principles and live only for themselves. This is a difficult choice, which was faced by the protagonist of the novel-chronicle of Anatoly Razanovich "Wormwood-water" Alexei Zhilevsky. He, like almost everyone, chose the path that leads to a world of goodness, justice, peace.

Pan

The heroes of the story, who came to rest in the sanatorium, meet in the woods with the Lord - the mythical master of forests, fields and herds with goat's legs, horns and beard. This work is about love, fidelity and betrayal. The detective stories in the collection are action-packed, written on moral and ethical topics that concern society.

Pan Tadeusz, or the last visit in Lithuania

"Pan Tadeusz" - one of the most famous works of Adam Mickiewicz, in which he embodied the image of Lithuania since 1811 and 1812 during his time in exile. He joined various topics: bright image of amorous adventures of the young Tadeusz, the story of the nobility disputes over possession of the castle, and, finally, the fall of the story of repentance and rehabilitation of Jacek Saplitsa.

Partisans of Belarus

The book contains information about the legendary partisans - Heroes of the Soviet Union, personal stories-testimonies of the courage and heroism of partisans during the Great Patriotic War. Each material is based on the memories of relatives, friends, archival documents and gives an idea of the voluminous portrait of the war, the fiery forties, in which our grandmothers and grandfathers lived, studied, loved, fought and forged Victory. The publication is addressed to those for whom the words Fatherland, Patriotism, Love for the Motherland are written in the genetic code.

Pastavy