Pułkownik Aleksander Uspienski i jego wspomnienia o Pierwszym Białoruskim Pułku Piechoty w Grodnie

Abstract

The Belarusian factor played an important role in the period of Lithuanian state-­building after the First World War. A significant part of the Belarusian community politically supported the creation of an independent Lithuania, and one of the most important effects of this cooperation was the creation of national Belarusian detachments in the Lithuanian Army. The process of their formation began in December 1918 and until 1923, when the question of Vilnius was solved on international level, larger or smaller Belarusian detachments existed in the structures of the Lithuanian Army. This text is a translation into Belarusian of the memories of one of the most active Belarusian officers in the Lithuanian Army—Col. Aleksander Uspenski (1876–1951). Originally published in Lithuanian in 1925, the memoirs concern one of the most important episodes of Belarusian-­Lithuanian military cooperation—the organization and operation of the 1st Belarusian Infantry Regiment in Hrodna in the first half of 1919.