In 1902 Vaclau Lastouski joined the Polish Socialist Party that was active in Lithuania.
17 Facts About Vaclau Lastouski
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In 1906 Vaclau Lastouski relocated to Riga to work as a railway clerk.
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Vaclau Lastouski attempted to pass examinations to receive a secondary school qualification but, despite good results for the main subjects, failed due to his poor knowledge of the Russian language.
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In Riga, Vaclau Lastouski became actively involved in the Belarusian national movement.
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Vaclau Lastouski was a member of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly between 1906 and 1908 and was imprisoned for socialist propaganda for several months in 1906.
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Vaclau Lastouski was a secretary of the editorial board of the Belarusian newspaper "Nasa Niva".
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Vaclau Lastouski was involved in writing and publishing school textbooks by a private publishing house.
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At the beginning of 1918 Vaclau Lastouski founded the Union of Independence and Indivisibility of Belarus that formulated the guidelines for the creation of an independent Belarusian state.
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Vaclau Lastouski was elected as one of the representatives of this council to participate in the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic that, on 25 March 1918, accepted the Third Constitutional Convention and proclaimed the independence of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
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In November 1918 Vaclau Lastouski became a member of the Council of Lithuania.
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In December 1919 Vaclau Lastouski was appointed Prime Minister of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.
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Vaclau Lastouski initiated the creation of the Union of Belarusian Parties for the Struggle for an Independent and Unified Belarus against Soviet Rule and against Polish Occupation at a Belarusian conference in Riga on 20 October 1920.
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From 1920 to 1923 Vaclau Lastouski went on diplomatic missions to Belgium, Germany, the Vatican, Italy, Czechoslovakia, France, Switzerland, and other countries.
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Vaclau Lastouski was appointed Director of the Belarusian State Museum, worked at Inbelkult, and was head of the ethnographic department of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
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In October 1929 Vaclau Lastouski was dismissed as secretary of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
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On 10 April 1931 Vaclau Lastouski was sentenced to be exiled for five years to Saratov, where he directed the department of old prints and manuscripts of the university library.
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Vaclau Lastouski was posthumously exonerated in 1958 and 1988.