Pyotra Krecheuski

Piotra Krečeŭski
President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile
In office December 1919 – March 8, 1928
Preceded by	Jazep Losik
Succeeded by	Vasil Zacharka
Prime Minister	Vaclaŭ Lastoŭski
Prime Minister	Alaksandar Cvikievic
Prime Minister	Vasil Zacharka
Personal details
Born	(1879-08-07)August 7, 1879 Kobryn uyezd, Russian Empire
Died	March 8, 1928(1928-03-08) (aged 48) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Profession	Teacher, historian

Piotra Krecheuski (Belarusian: Пётра Крэчэўскі, Łacinka: Piotra Krečeŭski; August 7, 1879 – March 8, 1928, Prague) was a Belarusian statesman and president of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile.

Before the First World War he worked as a teacher in Jałówka near Białystok. He was delegate at the First All-Belarusian Congress in 1917 and member of the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. In December 1919 Krecheuski was elected President of the Council of the Belarusian republic and served on this post till his death.

In exile in Prague since 1919, he organized active information campaigns for Western governments about the current states of Belarusian SSR and West Belarus.

He organized a conference of Belarusian emigrant organizations in September 1921 that criticized the Polish-Bolshevist Peace of Riga that divided Belarus in two parts.

Krecheuski has convinced the Czechoslovak government to give grants for Belarusian students. He created the Belarusian archive in Prague and published the politological almanac Zamiežnaja Biełaruś.

Works

• Беларусь у мінулам і сучаснам (нарыс географічнага, гістарычнага і эканамічнага доследу) // Замежная Беларусь: зборнік гісторыі, культуры і эканомікі / Пад рэд. П. А. Крэчэўскага. Кн. 1. Прага: Выд-ва імяні Ф. Скарыны, 1926. C. 31–77. [Belarus in the Past and Present (Project of a Historical and Economic Study)]
• Гісторыя беларускай кнігі // Замежная Беларусь: зборнік гісторыі, культуры і эканомікі. С. 99–116. [History of the Belarusian Book]
• Мандаты Б Н. Р. // Замежная Беларусь: зборнік гісторыі, культуры і эканомікі. C. 121–139. [Mandates of the Belarusian Democratic Republic]
• Скарына і незалежнасьць // Замежная Беларусь: зборнік гісторыі, культуры і эканомікі. С. 7–16. [Skaryna and Independence]
• Рагнеда: Гіст. драма Х ст. у 4 актах з пралогам // Спадчына. 1993. №3. С.16–30 [Rahnieda, a drama in four parts]

External links

• PIOTRA KRECHEUSKI on Belarus-misc.org

Leaders of Belarus since 1918
	Belarusian People's Republic (1918–1919) Sierada
	Belarusian People's Republic in exile (since 1919) Krecheuski Zakharka Abramchyk Zhuk-Hryshkyevich Sazhych Rahula* Survilla
	First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR (1919–1991) Knorinsh Osatkin-Vladimirsky Krinitsky Goloded Knorinsh Gamarnik Gey Gikalo Sharangovich Yakovlev* Volkov Ponomarenko Gusarov Patolichev Mazurov Masherov Kiselyov Slyunkov Sokolov Malofeyev
	Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus (1991–1994) Shushkevich Kuznetsov* Hryb
/	President of Belarus (since 1994) Lukashenko
* acting