Zmicier Zhylunovich (Belarusian-lacinka: Źmicier Žyłunovič, Belarusian-Cyrillic alphabet: Зьміцер Жылуновіч, transliterated from Russian: Dmitri Zhilunovich) (October 13, 1887 — April 11, 1937) was Belarusian poet, writer and journalist known under pen name Tsishka Hartny (Ciška Hartny, Цішка Гартны), and a political leader. He was the first head of a Soviet state in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.[1]
In 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested as an enemy of the Belarusian people and committed suicide in prison.[1]