Translated by Andrei Skurko
Drawings by Maria Platonova

“Somewhere in the Shchuchin region in the forest
The Khrushch is buzzing in the honeysuckle thicket”

The iconic poem “Khrushch” for Poland is loved because Jan Brzechwa concentrated in it an incredible number of specific sounds, difficult even for Poles.

Andrei Skurko managed to choose appropriate Belarusian words to convey the appropriate mood and complexity of the now Belarusian pronunciation.