Franciak Bahuevi was a Belarusian poet, writer and lawyer, considered to be one of the initiators of modern Belarusian literature.
Franciak Bahuevi was born in Ambary Manor in the Vilna uezd of the Vilna Governorate . As known, this manor in the end life was got by Vasily Tyapinsky. Bahuevi participated in the January Uprising of 18631864. After this, Bahuevi left Belarus to live in Ukraine, where he studied in Nezhinsk legal liceum. He worked as a lawyer defending the rights of the peasantry. After amnesty for all participants of the revolt was announced, dated for an ascension on the throne of Alexander III, he moved with his family back to Vilna. There he worked in a law office and wrote clauses to the magazine Kraj in Polish. After dismissal of veins in Kushlyany , he died. He is buried in the village of Zhuprany in the Ashmyany raion.
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