Radasłaŭ Astroŭski
Belarusian politician
Radasłaŭ Kazimiravič Astroŭski (25 October 1887 – 17 October 1976) was a Belarusian collaborator with Nazi Germany who served as the president of the Belarusian Central Council, a puppet Belarusian administration under German hegemony from 1943–1944, and in exile from 1948-1976.
Early years
Radasłaŭ Astroŭski was born on 25 October 1887 in the town of Zapolle, Slutsk Uyezd, Minsk Governorate. He studied at the Slutsk gymnasium, but was expelled for participating in the Russian Revolution of 1905–1907. In 1908, he was accepted to the mathematical faculty of Saint Petersburg University. In 1911, he was arrested for taking part in revolutionary riots and was imprisoned at Saint Petersburg and Pskov. After his release in 1912, he re-entered the university and later transferred to the University of Tartu, from where he graduated with a degree in physics and mathematics.
After University, Astroŭski worked as a teacher in Częstochowa, Poland and in Minsk. From 1915 to 1917, he taught at the Minsk Teaching Institute. After the February Revolution, he became the commissar of the Russian Provisional Government in Slutsk paviet. In September of that same year, he founded the Slutsk Belarusian Gymnasium and became its principal.
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