Excerpt from the poem Kupala party started. It brought together the main girl.
"This understanding, went from our name — the name of man, society, civilization and town. Two approaches: the grave — it is death, it is death. This name is gone or whether that there killed people, or associated with love, life, the future. I believe that Masheka and Predslava — our future. It — free-love1 person.
"Destroy him the woman whom he was very fond. Maybe through this, that he was buried, and there was a title" Tomb lion. "Naturally, it is very topical. Through give a lot of things going on."
"Masheka — Belarus is a sign of the struggle for freedom. It was the beginning of a hero, until he began to make grievances. So he began to avenge the insult."
"For me Masheka exemplary. Plot of the poem is burning — love and money. Can I buy a love for money, or more than the highest sense it?"
Yanka Kupala graduated poem "Tomb Lion" in 1913 at the estate trenches. The first time the product has been placed in the newspaper "Belarus" in 1920. Separate edition of the poem was published in Minsk in 1927, 3,000 copies.
In the photo above — cover rarity now book with the poem "Tomb lion"