kuzma cherny left his studies and soon began working in the editorial office of the newspaper belorusskaya derevnyahe writer became chairman of the literary. unity of uzvysh and editor-in-chief of the magazine of the same name. in the early thirties, cherny made a statement about his intention to write the history of the belarusian people in artistic images. as a result , the novel the third generation, the plays irinka and batkovshchina, and the story lyuba lukyayanskaya appeared. in 1938 the writer was arrested on trumped-up charges, released from prison a few months later, but with seriously compromised health. nevertheless , in... years cherny managed to write three novels and a literary study of novaya zemlya kolos. these manuscripts were burned in the first days of the war. while in evacuation, kuzma cherny published almost daily. articles and pieces, wrote several more novels, novellas and short stories. after the liberation of belarus, the writer returned to minsk, but in november 1944 he died after a stroke. he became the founder of the novel genre in national literature. he was one of the