January 20th, 2015, a well-known Belarusian historian Anatol Hrytskevich died.
Anatol Hrytskievich was born January 31th, 1929 in Minsk. In 1950 he graduated from the Minsk Medical Institute, in 1955 from Minsk Institute of Foreign Languages, and in 1958, while working as a doctor, he graduated from the Belarusian State University. And since 1959 he worked at the Institute of History of Belarus. In 1975 he became the head of the Minsk Institute of Culture (since 1993 it’s named the Belarusian State University of Culture). In 2001-2005 he was the president of the World Association of Belarusians “Batskauščyna” (“Fatherland”), later he served as its honorary chairman.
He actively cooperated with the National Research and Education Center named after Frantsysk Skaryna.
He explored the history of Belarus of the feudal period, historiography, religious issues, a status of the Orthodox and Uniate Churches in Belarus, the history of Belarus in 1917-1920, of the Slutsk uprising.