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Their Great-Grandfathers Knew Kastus Kalinouski

Their Great-Grandfathers Knew Kastus Kalinouski

How the descendants of the 1863 uprising's leaders live.

Their great-grandfathers personally knew Kastus Kalinouski and led the uprising in 1863 in Belarus and Lithuania. One was exiled to Siberia, while the other survived only due to corruption of the royal officials. The Russian authorities and fate brought them to Poland, near Warsaw.

How do the descendants of the secretary of the rebel government in Lithuania and Belarus, Karol Falevich, and the head of the government, Yakub Heishtar, live now and how do they preserve their memory? Watch a special report of Belsat.

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