Vera Maslovskaya

Vera Maslovskaya
Вера Маслоўская
image taken during processing for her hearing on 14 May 1923
Born	Vera Ignatyevna Mateychuk (1896-03-24)24 March 1896 Supraśl, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Died	23 January 1981(1981-01-23) (aged 84) Supraśl, Polish People's Republic (now Poland)
Other names	Vera Ignatyevna Maslovskaya-Mateychuk, Vera Matejczuk, Vera Matejchuk, Vera Ignatyevna Maslovskaya, Vera Karchevskaya-Maslovskaya, Vera Korchevskaya
Occupation(s)	teacher, poet, Belarusian nationalist
Years active	1914-1958
Known for	organizing the Belarusian underground nationalist movement

Vera Ignatyevna Maslovskaya (Belarusian: Вера Ігнатаўна Маслоўская, romanized: Viera Ihnataǔna Masloǔskaya, 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1896 – 23 January 1981)^[1] was a Belarusian teacher, poet and nationalist, who worked for an independent Belarus in the interwar period. Founding some of the first schools that taught in the Belarusian language, her teaching career was interrupted with her arrest for her underground activities against the Polish government. When the Soviet Union took control of the area, during World War II, she returned to teaching, establishing schools which taught a Belarusian curriculum in several cities. At the end of the war, she fled to Poland to escape a resurgence in threats against former nationalist activists. She worked in a kindergarten for five years in Silesia and then returned to Supraśl, where she served as the head of the city library and later on the Białystok District Council. She was a socialist and is considered to be one of the founders of the Belarusian women's movement.^[2]