Hryhorij epic

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Hryhorij Epik around 1930
Kharkiv, 1926. From left to right: Petro Pantsch , Majk Johansen , Wassyl Wraschlywyj , Hryhorij Epik

Hryhorij Danylowytsch epic ( Ukrainian Григорій Данилович Епік , Russian Григорий Данилович Эпик Grigory Danilovich epic ; born January 4, jul. / 17th January  1901 greg. In Kamianka , yekaterinoslav governorate , Russian Empire ; † 3. November 1937 in Sandarmoch , Karelian ASSR , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian journalist, translator, and writer. He belongs to the " shot rebirth ", a generation of Ukrainian SSR writers murdered by the Stalinist purges .

Life

Hryhorij Epik was born in the settlement of Kamjanka, ( Кам'янка ) in what is now Amur-Nizhnyodnipro Raion in the city of Dnipro.

From 1919 on he was a member of the Communist Party. Epik worked as an editor between 1920 and 1925. From 1925 to 1929 he studied in Kharkov at the Institute for Marxism-Leninism and lived in the writers' house "Slowo" (word), Apt. 7. After graduating, he became the director of a publishing house and a member of several literary organizations. His writings, including collections of short stories and novels, were first published in Poltava in 1923 . In the 1920s he sharply criticized some aspects of the Soviet regime in his prose, but he wrote his last novels Perscha wesna ( Перша весна , in German The First Spring ) from 1931 and Petro Romen ( Петро Ромен ) from 1932 in the spirit of Stalinism. Some of his works have been translated into German, Hebrew, Romanian, Polish, Russian, and Belarusian.

Epik was arrested during the Stalin Purge on December 5, 1934 and on March 28, 1935 in Kiev by a military college of the Supreme Court of the USSR accused of belonging to a counter-revolutionary organization and sentenced to 10 years in prison. A special troika of the NKVD of the Leningrad region sentenced him to death by shooting on October 9, 1937. The sentence was carried out during a mass execution of prisoners on the 20th anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution in Sandarmoch, Karelia . Officially, the date of his death was incorrectly given as January 28, 1942.

Web links

Commons : Hryhorij Epik  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Epik Danylowytsch in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on January 23, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Epik Danylowytsch on nekropole.info; accessed on January 23, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Entry on Epik Danylowytsch on nekropole.info; accessed on January 23, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Entry to Epik Danylowytsch in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on January 23, 2018 (English)
  5. ↑ Entry on Epik Danylowytsch in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on 2018 (ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Epic, Hryhorij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Epik, Hryhorij Danylowytsch (full name); Епік, Григорій Данилович (Ukrainian); Эпик, Григорий Данилович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian journalist, translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamjanka , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1937
Place of death Sandarmoch , Karelian ASSR , Soviet Union