page_title: Yanka Kupala
section_title: In Vilnius and St. Petersburg
hierarchical_section_title: Yanka Kupala / Biography / In Vilnius and St. Petersburg
caption_attribution_description: English: Yanka Kupala during his study at Saint Petersburg in 1909 Беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎: Янка Купала ў пэрыяд вучобы на агульнаадукацыйных курсах А. Чарняева. г. Санкт-Пецярбург, 1909 г.
context_page_description: Yanka Kupala was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich. He was a Belarusian poet and writer. Kupala is said to be one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Kupala moved from Belarus to Vilnius in 1908. He continued with his career as a poet. The first published collection of his poems, Жалейка (The Little Flute) made the czarist government mad. The order for Kupala's arrest was ended in 1909.
  Kupala left for St. Petersburg in 1909. In 1910 he published several works. He left St. Petersburg and returned to Vilnius in 1913. Among those influencing Kupala in the 1910s was Maxim Gorky.
caption: Yanka Kupala during his study under a professor A. Charniaev in Saint Petersburg, 1909
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