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Polatski (Полоцкий) Simon (Samuel Petrowski-Sitnianovicz)
(1629—1680)

Simon Polatski (Samuel Petrowski-Sitnianovicz), an outstanding Belarusian and Russian writer. He is a founder of modern Russian poetry. He belonged to one of the richest merchant family in Polatsk and was Orthodox by birth. From 1643 he studied theology in Kyiv Greek-Orthodox College, the only Orthodox high school in the Commonwealth. About 1650... More...

Belarus, 1995, Simon Polatski