A monument to the insurgents has appeared in Zarubitski forest near the Belarusian city of Hrodna.
“Our respect to the local forestry workers,” journalist Pavał Mažejka said on Twitter.
It is not the first time that the local forestry enterprise which is 23-25 km from Hrodna has paid the tribute to the memory of prominent Belarusians, says Mažejka. Earlier, they erected a monument to internationally renowned Belarusian writer Vasil Bykau.
“When the people working for Indursk forestry enterprise knew that Zarubitski forest was one of the spots of the uprising, they decided to honour the memory of the rebels. It is their initiative. The monument is wonderful. The broken tree is a symbol of the disrupted life of the participants of the uprising; the cross shows their creed. There is also a signboard ‘1863’. And the fir growing from the broken tree gives us a hope for rebirthing,” the journalist told belsat.eu.
The January Uprising began on 22 January 1863 in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, parts of Ukraine, and western Russia) and lasted until the last insurgents were captured in 1864.
