yanka luchina, real name ivan neslukhovsky, was born in 1851 in minsk into a noble family.cs of st. petersburg university, but a year later he preferred the profession of an engineer to mathematics and transferred to the institute of technology. from 1877 he was in charge of railway workshops in tiflis; because of parolich, either after an unsuccessful fall, or because of tragic events in the family, he returned to minsk, got a job as a draftsman in the technical bureau of the railway and made his debut as a poet. in 1886 , the newspaper minsk listok published his poem in its first issue, not for the sake of fame. or calculation, which is a manifesto of the new edition. a year later the first poem appeared in the belarusian language, which the author signed with the pseudonym jan koluchina. this was followed by publications in various magazines and poetry collections. the poet actively participated in the literary and theatrical life of minsk, translated the works of vladislav syrkomli, ivan krylov, heinrich heine, translated homer’s iliad from ancient greek into polish, co