Portrait of Yakub Kolas

Image of an elderly man standing on a plinth leaning on a vertically standing log chunk, dressed in an open front coat, his head raised and turned to the left, a high forehead framed by short-cropped hair beneath the parietal part, his eyebrows shifted, narrowed eyes squinted under heavy swollen eyelids, a large pointed nose, compressed lips under a small mustache; the right hand elbow leans on the wood cut and holding the left hand, holding a wide-brimmed hat of soft shape in it, the right leg is advanced forward. Dressed in an unbuttoned coat, 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.