Svislach activists commemorate insurgents
On 2 February the Svislach activists
honored the memory of participants of the insurgency of 1863-1864,
laid down flowers to the monuments of its leaders Kastus Kalinouski
and Ramuald Trauhut and the grave of Viktar Kalinouski (Kastus
Kalinouski's elder brother, an ideologist of the rebellion).
On
this grave there is also a stone with a table containing an
inscription in honor of all insurgents.
Svislach is the only
Belarusian city where several monuments to participants of the
insurgency of 1863 are situated, as well as the famous gymnasium,
finished by many prominent public figures including some insurgents.
The nationwide feast in honor of the Kalinouski brothers is
traditionally held in Svislach and Yakushouka (where their patrimony
used to be situated) on the eve of the Ancestors' Day. The last
celebration in 2012 was saddened by a number of administrative
arrests and fines to its participants.
