Oscar Milosz was born and spent his childhood in Čareja (near Mogilev in present day Belarus), which had been once belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was then part of the Russian Empire.
Oscar Milosz was born in Čareja (near Mogilev in present day Belarus). Earlier these lands had belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but at the time was part of the Russian Empire.