Arseny Pavlyukevich (1889, Slutsk district , Russian Empire - April 4, 1941, Warsaw, or October 20, 1941, Oswiecim ) - Russian and Polish Belarusian military and public figure, doctor by profession. It is considered a leader of Belarusian nationalism , although in various sources it is also called a Soviet or Polish agent.
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Biography
He came from the family of the priest of Slutsk district. He graduated from the medical faculty of Moscow University . During training, according to Polish sources, he was a member of the monarchical organization " Union of Archangel Michael ."
After completing his studies and returning to his native place, he worked as a doctor in Slutsk . In 1917, he spoke and sharply spoke out against the Poles. In 1918 he was a member of the Slutsk provincial committee of the Belarusian Social Revolutionary Party . In November 1920, he headed the updated Slutsk Belarusian National Committee and was the head of its medical and sanitary unit.
At the congress, Sluchchiny was a rival of Vladimir Prokulevich in the struggle for the post of chairman of the Belarusian Council of Slutsk. During the Slutsk uprising led the rebel hospital. After the defeat of the uprising, refusing to hand over weapons to the Poles, along with Captain Khvedcheney , lieutenant Matseli and a group of young people, retreated from Moroch, the last stronghold in Sluchine, in David-Gorodok , where they were nevertheless disarmed by the Poles. After this, Pavlyukevich delivered a speech in which he said that Belarusian soldiers would free Belarus from “Poles and Bolsheviks”.
Subsequently, he lived in Nesvizh , Sinyavka , Vilnius (since 1920 part of Poland). Participated in the Prague Conference in September 1921. In 1922, according to Polish sources, he founded the illegal society “For Motherland” in the Novogrudok Voivodeship. In April 1922, he was arrested by the Polish authorities in Nesvizh. After his release, he left politics for a while and practiced medicine. In the 1920s he lived in Vilnius. He worked as a doctor in one of the Polish military units.
In 1924, he became one of the founders of the Provisional Belarusian Council, which became a political opponent of left-wing Belarusian parties (BSRG, KPZB), and was elected its chairman. He also founded and headed a number of other Belarusian (and formally polonofilsky) organizations: Prasvet, Belarusian Khatka, Belarusian Committee on Self-Government Affairs, Belarusian National Rada, Belarusian National Party.
The publisher of “Public Voice”, renamed “Belarusian word” in 1926. He began a campaign in the press to discredit Anton Lutskevich and identify his ties with the Bolsheviks.
After the coup in Warsaw on May 15, 1926, the Provisional Belarussian Rada at an emergency meeting decided to send a congratulatory telegram addressed to Jozef Pilsudski . Shortly after the telegram, Pavlyukevich personally went to Warsaw to receive support and financial assistance from the new government. Prime Minister Bartel, with whom Pavlyukevich spoke, promised support and help, however, he demanded greater activity and increased influence among Polish Belarusians. After that, Pavlyukevich held agitation meetings in Novogrudok, Baranavichy and Nesvizh at the end of May, and the Rada representatives went to Grodno, Vilensky and Lida districts for the purpose of campaigning. Finally, on June 16, 1926, the SRA spoke with the “Memorial of the Provisional Belarusian Rada to the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers”.
It is believed that he was a double agent - Polish intelligence and the Soviet GPU. He helped Boris Koverde in the preparation of the assassination attempt on the Soviet ambassador to Poland, Peter Voykov . At the end of 1926, due to the lack of funding, Rada Pavlyukevich collapsed, and some of his former comrades stood in opposition to the former chairman. Printing houses also refused to print newspapers due to debt. In 1928, as a Soviet spy, he was sentenced by a Polish court to 12 years in prison. In September 1939 he was imprisoned in a concentration camp in Berez-Kartuzskaya and was appointed one of the doctors in the camp. After the outbreak of the Second World War, according to Polish sources, he lived in Warsaw under the assumed name Jan Novitsky and took part in the activities of the Polish underground military organization Wilki (Wolves). At the end of 1940, he was arrested by the Germans, was either shot on April 4, 1941, or sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died on October 20, 1941 [1] .