Andrij Tchaikovsky

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Andrij Tchaikovsky

Andrij Jakowytsch Tschaikowskyj ( Ukrainian Андрій Якович Чайковський ; born May 15, 1857 in Sambir ; † June 2, 1935 in Kolomyja ) was a Ukrainian writer, lawyer and politician.

Life

After his Abitur, which he made in Sambir in 1877, he served as a conscript in the army and then studied first at the Faculty of Philosophy and a year later at the Law Faculty of the University of Lviv . After completing his studies, he worked as a lawyer in Lviv and later opened his own law firm in Bereschany . Before the First World War he moved back to his hometown, and after the war he settled in Kolomyja, where he stayed until the end of his life. He became a senior member of Proswita during his studies . During this time he also began to write. He published his first work in 1888 and quickly gained notoriety in the Ukraine in the following years.

memory

A permanent exhibition is dedicated to him in the J. Kobrynskyi Museum of Hutsul Folk Art in Kolomyja.

Works (selection)

  • На уходах (1921), German translation: Daring Steppenreiter: Adventures from the Cossack Ukraine , Wuppertal: Kolibri-Verlag, 1972
  • German translation Ritt ins Tatarenland , Wuppertal: Kolibri-Verlag, 1968
  • Козацька помста (1910), Lemberg: Aichelberger
  • Twory u 8 tomach (collected works in 8 volumes), Lemberg: Tscherwona Kalyna, 1992ff.
  • Spohady, lysty, doslidzennja (3 volumes), Lemberg: Naukowa Fundazia Andrija Tschaikowskoho, 2002, ISBN 966-613151-X (single volumes ISBN 966-613152-8 , ISBN 966-613153-6 , ISBN 966-613154-4 )

Web links

Commons : Andrij Tschaikowskyj  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Andrij Tschaikowskyj , on ukrlib ; accessed on May 4, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Josafat-Kobrynskyj Museum of Folk Art of the Hutsuls and Pokuttya on karpaty.info ; accessed on January 30, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Tschaikowskyj, Andrij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschaikowskyj, Andrij Jakowytsch (full name); Чайковський, Андрій Якович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Sambir
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1935
Place of death Kolomyia