Yevhen Chykalenko

Yevhen Chykalenko

Yevhen Charlamowytsch Tschykalenko ( Ukrainian Євген Харламович Чикаленко , Russian Евгений Харлампиевич Чикаленко Yevgeny Charlampijewitsch Tschikalenko ; born December 9, ^jul. / 21st December  1861 ^greg. In Pereschory , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 20th June 1929 in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Ukrainian patron of Ukrainian culture , agronomist , landowner, publisher and publicist .

Life

Yevhen Tschykalenko was born in Pereschory ( Перешори ) in what is now Podilsk Raion in the Ukrainian Odessa Oblast . He attended high school in Jelisavetgrad , today's Kropywnyzkyj, where he made the acquaintance of his brothers Ivan Karpenko-Karyj and Mykola Sadowskyj through Panas Saksahanskyj , one of his classmates . Another classmate was the future poet, novelist and journalist Oleksandr Tarkowskyj ( Олександр Карлович Тарковський ), father of the poet Arseni Tarkovsky and grandfather of the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky .

From 1881 he studied agronomy at the Natural Science Faculty of the University of Kharkiv , where he met his wife and was close to the secret Ukrainian student organization " Drahaniwska Community ". For this reason he was arrested in 1885 and deported to Pereschory, where he spent the next five years under police supervision, but also successfully ran his uncle's estate, which he inherited after his death. From 1894 on he lived in Odessa , where he financed, among other things, the edition of the "Russian-Ukrainian dictionary" by Mychajlo Komarov ( Михайло Федорович Комаров ). He also organized the Daniil Mordovzew Foundation of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv to support Ukrainian writers.

In 1900 he moved to Kiev , where he became an active member of the Hromada in the same year . In 1905 he began there, with the financial help of Wassyl Symyrenko , among other things , with the publication of the first daily newspaper in the Ukraine on the Dnepr , which was called first "public opinion" and then "Rada" . Borys Hrintschenko and his wife Marija Hrintschenko , Serhij Jefremow , Mykola Woronyj , Symon Petljura , Dmytro Doroshenko and Lyudmyla Staryzka-Tschernjachiwska worked in their editorial team at different times

He separated from his wife, with whom he had five children, in 1909 and from then on lived, civilly married, with her much younger niece, who died a year before him.

Between 1914 and 1917 he hid from the police in Finland , Petrograd and Moscow . In March 1917 he became editor of the newspaper "Nova Rada" in Kiev and in April 1918 he became a member of the Central Rada for the party of the Union of Ukrainian Autonomous Federalists . In January 1919 Tschykalenko left the now Soviet Ukraine and moved to Stanislaw in western Ukraine , which was annexed a short time later by the Second Polish Republic .

He emigrated in 1920 to the Austrian Vienna and from there in 1925 in Czechoslovakia, where he became chairman of the Terminology Commission of the Ukrainian Academy of Economics in Poděbrady was elected. Yevhen Tschykalenko died in Prague in 1929 at the age of 67 after a long illness. His body was cremated in the crematorium according to his will.

literature

• Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century Page 1902 (English)

Web links

• Entry on Yevhen Chykalenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Yevhen Chykalenko refused to become a hetman of Ukraine in Gazeta.ua on December 20, 2011; accessed on February 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Entry on Jewhen Tschykalenko in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 19, 2018
3. ↑ Biography Yevhen Tschykalenko ( memento of the original from February 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ukrainians-world ; accessed on February 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)