Poet Mikola Husouski (Мікола Гусоўскі) (Belarusian & Polish Poet; also "Nikolay (Nikolai) Gusouski", "Gusovski", and "Husowski") (1470s -- after 1533) Illustration Credit: V.P. Stashchanuk in Adkyl' Nash Rod, by Uladzimir Arlov, Published by V. Batskaushchyna, Mensk, 1996; page 61.

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News Article: Work Completed on Monuments to Francisak Skaryna and Mikola Husowski in Belarusian State University Courtyard

"Work has been completed on monuments to Francisak Skaryna, Belarus' printing pioneer, and Mikola Husowski, a Renaissance poet, in the courtyard of the Belarusian State University."

"As Anatoly Bely, chairman of the Minsk-based Spadchyna cultural and educational club, told BelaPAN, the monuments were installed on concrete granite-lined and bronze-decorated pedestals. Mr. Bely noted that the monument to Skaryna by Sergei Adashkevich now looks like a monument to the Belarusian language. The whole Cyrillic Renaissance-font-type alphabet is engraved in the bronze pedestal."

"The monument to Husowski, the author of the famous poem "A Song about the Bison" (1523), was made by Vladimir Panteleyev. It is decorated with a large bronze panel depicting a fight between a man and a large wild animal."

"The university is creating a pantheon of Belarusian history and culture in its courtyard. A monument to Saint Euphrosyne of Polacak (Polotsk) by Igor Golubev was the last to be erected here."

"All the monuments were presented by Spadchyna. Mr. Bely is the designer of the pantheon."

Source: BelaPAN, No. 20; Friday, May 5, 2000; 4:20 p.m.

Mikola Husouski. Belarusan and Polish poet, representative of Neo-Latin poetry. He is the author of the remarkable Carmen de statura feritate ac venatione bisontis (Song about the stature and ferocity of the aurochs and hunting him), written in the early 1520s in Rome, where he was on a diplomatic mission.

In the poem, a vivid description is given of Belarus' rich natural resources, customs of the period, and partriotic views on history, including praise of Grand Duke Vitaut. There are several translations of the poem into Belarusan.

The preceding is from the following source:
From his entry in the Historical Dictionary of Belarus (Zaprudnik, 1998; p. 123). (Text in bold in the preceding refers to other entries in the Historical Dictionary of Belarus. The Historical Dictionary of Belarus is a very important summary of the history of Belarus.)

News Article: «Bison» from «Song about the Bison», a new rock release by Suzorye

"Suzorye, one of Belarus' rock legends, have finished their long-awaited Song about the Bison, an album the band had been working on since 1981. The album is based on "Song about the Bison and his Stature and Fierceness and about Hunting for the Bison" by Mikolaj Hussowczyk, a 16th-century Belarusian poet who wrote in Latin.

The release was supported by the US embassy and is due within a few weeks. There are 11 tracks in the album. One of them, "Bison" (Zubr), appears on our site courtesy of Suzorye."

Note: Follow the link to access the title song for download (as an MP3-format audio file).

Source: Naviny, Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Examples of his poetry

Poem: "A Song about the Bison"   (CARMEN de statura feritate ac venatione BISONTIS; 1523) on the     Bielaruskaja palicka Web site -- see links to other articles about Husouski and the poem there.)

• In Latin: "CARMEN de statura feritate ac venatione BISONTIS"
• In Belarusian: "Песьня пра зубра"

Other Information and Translations on the Bielaruskaja palicka Web site: Мікола Гусоўскі