Portrait of Yakub Kolas

Image of an elderly man standing on a plinth with coat opened, his head is raised, has a high forehead, short-cropped hair framed below the parietal part, shifted eyebrows, squinted small eyes under heavy swollen eyelids, a large pointed nose, pursed lips under a small mustache; he has a cane in the right lowered hand, the right leg extended forward. Dressed in a coat thrown over his shoulders, a jacket, wide long trousers. Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kołas, Belarusian: Якуб Колас, November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1882 – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstancin Mickievič was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and a member (1928) and a vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.