A half-length image of a man, the body turned three-quarters to the left, he has a high forehead with a deep baldness, slightly shifted eyebrows, a concentrated gaze of puffy eyes, a large straight nose, a small mustache, and a chin with a dimple in the middle. Dressed in a shirt with a tie and a jacket, a welt pocket on the left. His left bent at the elbow arm rests on the opened book in front of the figure, the right one touches the inner edge of the left lapel of the jacket. Maxim Ivanovich Goretsky (February 18, 1893, Malaya Bogatkovka, Mogilev province, Russian Empire (now the Mstislavsky district of the Mogilev region) - February 10, 1938, Vyazma, Smolensk region, USSR) was a Belarusian writer, a literary critic, a translator, a folklorist, a activist of the Belarusian national movement beginning of XX century. On November 4, 1937, he was arrested by NKVD. According to the decision of the “troika”, he was executed on February 10, 1938; he was rehabilitated only on November 15, 1957.