LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY OF METROPOLITAN STANISLAV BOHUSZ-SESTRZENCEWICZ
The literary and scientific heritage of one of Catholic Church hierarchs in Belarus, namely metropolitan Stanislav Bohusz-Sestrzencewicz (1731 - 1826), is characterized in this paper. Being a poet, playwright, translator, philosopher, the linguist, philologist, and historian he has enjoyed deserved fame as an erudite and popularizer of scientific knowledge among the contemporaries. In this paper, the special attention is given to reviewing historical works of the Mogilev archbishop. He has left five historical subject researches which are devoted to study of Crimea history, problems of origin of Slavs and formation of their statehood. The author has come to conclusion that S. Bohusz-Sestrzencewicz considered Belarus as an organic component of Russia which had been in its structure from the beginning of Slavs' statehood formation and can be considered as one of west-russism predecessors.