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Czeslaw Milosz was born on 30 June 1911 in his family's former manorial village of Szetejnie, on the banks of the Niewiaza River, in what was then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Czeslaw milosz biography template

His family was of the Polish-speaking gentry, a class that was politically and economically ruined by the time of Milosz's birth, but whose grand heritage nonetheless persisted in collective memory. Milosz counts himself among the last of the Polish Lithuanians, recalling, "We were something else, Lithuanians, but not in the accepted twentieth-century sense, which says that to be a Lithuanian you have to speak Lithuanian" (Conversations With Czeslaw Milosz, 4).

Milosz's father, Alexander Milosz, was a highway engineer for the tsar's army from 1914 to 1918; thus, the family, including his mother, Weronika Milosz née Kunat, and his younger brother, Andrzej, traveled throughout Russia and Siberia when Milosz was a child.

They were in the Russian town of Rzhev, on the Volga River, at the outbreak of the