Jurij Horlis-Horskyj
Jurij Horlis-Horskyj ( Ukrainian Юрій Горліс-Горський , born as Jurij Jurijowytsch Horodjanyn-Lissowskyj , Ukrainian Юрій Юрійович Городянин-Лісовський ; born January 2 . Jul / 14. January 1898 greg. In Demydivka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 27 September 1946 in Augsburg , American Zone of Occupation Germany ) was a Ukrainian writer and officer in the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic .
Life
Jurij Horlis-Horskyj was born as Jurij Jurijowytsch Horodjanyn-Lissowskyj in Demydiwka ( Демидівка ) in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava, the son of an officer in the Russian Army and a mother from the Polish nobility. He took part in the First World War and then joined the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR). During the National Ukrainian Revolution he was an officer in a Cossack regiment of the Zaporizhia Army Corps of the UNR ( Запорізький корпус Армії УНР ). During a winter campaign in the forest area of Cholodnyj Yar ( Холодний Яр ) in early February 1920, he fell ill and came for treatment at the Motroninsky Monastery in Melnyky , the center of the self-proclaimed Cholodnoyarska Republic ( Холодноярська, ресkesaja der respіnoyka ) his Geneskuodnoyarska .
In 1921 he went to Lviv , where he began to write and in 1933 his first book, Ave dictator! published. His best known work was the novel Cholodnyj Jar ( Холодний Яр ). During the Second World War he first went to Austria and at the end of the war he came to Neu-Ulm . On September 27, 1946, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Augsburg; his further fate is unknown.
Honors
On October 9, 2010 , a memorial was erected in Melnyky, the former center of the Cholodnoyarska Republic .
Web links
- Article on Jurij Horlis-Horskyj and his novel Cholodnyj Jar in Istorychna Pravda on November 3, 2010 (Ukrainian)
- Roman Cholodnyj Jar by Horlis-Horskyj on ukrlife.org (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cholodnyj Yar lives Premiere of a film about Jurij Horlis-Horskyj on day.kyiv on February 15, 2011; accessed on September 27, 2018 (Russian)
- ↑ entry to Jurij Horlis-Horskyj in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on September 27, 2018 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Horlis-Horskyj, Jurij |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Horodjanyn-Lissowskyj, Jurij Jurijowytsch (birth name); Горліс-Горський, Юрій (ukS-Cyrl); Городянин-Лісовський, Юрій Юрійович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Demydivka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1946 |
| Place of death | Augsburg , American Zone of Occupation Germany |