Zoska Veras Biography

Zoska Veras was familiar and collaborated with such famous personalities as V. Lastovsky, M. Goretsky, A. Garun, A. Smolich, Yadvigin Sh. Grinkevich, S. Novik-Pyuun and others. She was always in the thick of events, conducted active correspondence with Belarusian writers, poets, artists. Zoska Veras works for Belarus, writes memoirs, answers letters, helps scientists, museums and schools.

She is not an old woman. ” In childhood, Ludwik visited her grandparents in Grodno, traveled to the Grodno region with her father. After the death of her father, she lived with her mother in Grodno, in an apartment on Gorodnichanskaya Street, studied at a private female gymnasium. In her memoirs, “Old Grodno” written for the Maxim Bogdanovich museum, she described the old pontoon bridge, along which the carts could pass only in turn, one at a time, and the Cathedral Street of Sovetskaya Street - the place of walks and meetings of youth, and shops in the market of modern Soviet square.

According to D. Bichel, to whom Zoska Veras conveyed memories, "she wrote right away, did not do drafts, and the manuscript was without a single edit." The manuscript "Old Grodno" is stored in our museum. In a letter to D. Bichel, Zoska Veras wrote: “My thoughts often fly to Grodno - to the shadows of my grandfathers, to the memories of sincere hard work in the Grodno circle of Belarusian youth, where I got on the Belarusian path ...” The funds of our museum stores a photograph of a five -year -old Ludwick, taken in the photo studio of Sadovsky and Kozlovsky - the very one in which the first photo of Maxim Bogdanovich was taken in the year.

In the year, they met with adults in Minsk, where they worked together in the Belarusian Committee for Assistance to the Victims of War and became good friends. I picked her up: "And Pavlina Blok told me that Maxim was ugly - too pale, sick, coughing and sweating." And Mrs. Ludwik jumped up: “This is not true! He was pale, but it was to his face. And when he coughs, he usually stepped aside.

And he always had a clean handkerchief to wipe sweat and lips. ” The exposition of our museum presents the collection of M. Bogdanovich “Vyanok” with the autograph of Zoska Varas. Zoska Veras and Botanik in Grodno in the house of Eliza Ozheshko, a gymnasium student Ludwik Sivitskaya, impressed the composition of the dried colors and leaves made by the famous writer attached to the walls.

She loved the herbaria and Zoska Veras herself, was interested in botany, she knew medicinal herbs well. In Warsaw, she took a monthly course of gardening, gardening and beekeeping, and much later around her famous “forest house” on the outskirts of Vilnius there was a rich botanical garden, in which she raised unique varieties of colors, trees, ferns, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch roses, citrons, laurels, nuts.

She invited artists to her garden so that they would sketch plants in different periods of growing season, collect and dry grass, and create recipes for fees. Guests who came to Zoska Veras to find out about the Belarusian revival of the beginning of the twentieth century could always count on a cup of herbal tea. Now Zoska Veras is a bibliographic rarity, one copy, by the way, is located in the National Library of New York.

Letters and live. This is my connection with people ... ”“ Letters of friends of youth, and she corresponded with everyone and knew their fate on the globe, were tied with a ribbon and folded in chronological order. She said: “Do you ask about Peter Lastovka? Open the bedside table. There is that stack with a pink ribbon - letters from him. Read to have a clear idea of ​​a person.

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