Yuri Darahan

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Yuri Darahan

Jurij Jurijowytsch Darahan ( Ukrainian Юрій Юрійович Дараган * 16th March 1894 in Jelisawetgrad , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire ; † 17th March 1926 in Nova Ves pod Pleší in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) was a Ukrainian poet and an officer in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic .

Life

Jurij Darahan was born as the son of a Ukrainian engineer and a Georgian mother in Jelisavetgrad, today's Kropywnyzkyj in the Ukrainian Oblast of Kirovohrad . He was born a half-orphan as his father died three months before he was born. As a result, the family moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, shortly after his birth . There he attended secondary school, which he could not finish because he was drafted as a soldier by the Russian Army in the First World War , where he was wounded. After the February Revolution of 1917 , he joined the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic , attended the military school in Zhytomyr and became an officer. In 1920 he was interned in Kalisz, Poland . There he founded the literary magazine Vesselka (Ukrainian Веселка ) , together with Yevhen Malanyuk , in the internment camp, which existed from 1922 to 1923 . The hunger and cold in the camp caused him a serious illness. After his release from internment Darahan moved to Prague in the Czech Republic and attended the Ukrainian Pedagogical University M. Drahomanow there . He died of tuberculosis one day after his 32nd birthday in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Pleší near Prague and was buried in the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.

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Darahan created only one collection of poems, "Sahajdak" ( Сагайдак ), which was published in 1925. Its in the literary magazine Wesselka published Ukrainian-language poems, Pochid ( Похід ), Kiev ( Київ ) Mylunia ( Милуніа ) and Swaty ( Свати ), exerted a significant influence on the creative work of young contemporary Ukrainian poet in the West Ukraine and in the emigration from and were thematically and ideologically forerunners of the Prague School of Ukrainian Poetry .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jurij Darahan in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on February 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Malaniuk, Yevhen in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 1, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Entry on Jurij Darahan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 4, 2019
  4. ↑ Biography Yuri Darahan on the website of the Karpenko-Karyj museum park ; accessed on February 4, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Darahan, Jurij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darahan, Jurij Jurijowytsch (full name); Дараган, Юрій Юрійович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet and officer in the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelisavetgrad , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1926
Place of death Nová Ves pod Pleší near Prague , Czechoslovakia