Kost Burewij

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Kost Stepanowytsch Burewij ( Ukrainian Кость Степанович Буревій , Russian Кость Степанович Буревой food Stepanovich Burewoi ; Real name Константин Степанович Сопляков Konstantin Stepanovich Sopljakow ; born August 2, jul. / 14. August  1888 greg. In Bolshie Meschenki , Voronezh Governorate , Russian Empire ; † December 15, 1934 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, theater scholar, literary critic and translator of the executed rebirth .

Life

Kost Burewij was born in a small village in Eastern Sloboda-Ukraine in 1888 to a Ukrainian family. He acquired his education largely self-taught and in 1903 he became a member of the Social Revolutionary Party , to which he belonged until 1922 and in December 1917 became a member of the central committee of the party. He took an active part in the Revolution of 1905 and the October Revolution of 1917. He was first arrested in 1905 for his revolutionary activities. Further arrests and convictions followed in 1911, 1914 and 1916. He was exiled to Siberia several times, was imprisoned in 68 prisons and contracted bone tuberculosis. From June 1918 he was secretary of the Constituent Assembly Committee in Samara . During the Russian Civil War , he was briefly arrested after the coup by Alexander Kolchak in November 1918. Two more brief arrests for anti-Soviet activities and links with right-wing Social Revolutionaries followed in 1922.

From 1923 he was active in the Ukrainian national revival and in Moscow , where he lived at that time, one of the organizers of a Ukrainian publishing house and a Ukrainian society of friends of the Ukrainian theater, where he taught theatrical history. In 1929 he moved to Kharkov and took part in literary and social life there.

He began his writing activity with works in Russian. He wrote his first work in Ukrainian in 1925. He wrote plays and, under the pseudonym Edvard Strikha, parodic poems on proletarian literature , the pan- futurism of Mychajlo Semenko and the constructivism of Valeryan Polishchuk . His very sharp, controversial and anti-Soviet satiric did not go unnoticed by the KGB either. Only his pseudonym, which nobody knew who he really was, saved him from arrest. Official criticism of him began in 1929.

During the Stalinist terror he traveled to Moscow because of heightened repression in Ukraine, but was arrested there in autumn 1934 on charges of preparing for terrorism. On December 15, 1934 he and 27 other people, including in particular the writers Dmytro Falkiwskyj ( Дмитро Никанорович Фальківський ; 1898–1934), O. Blysko ( О. Близько ; † 1934) and Hryhorij Kossynka by a military court in Kossynka sentenced by shooting. The sentence was carried out on the same day in the October Palace in Kiev and his body was buried in a mass grave in the Lukjanivska cemetery .

In 1949 his wife emigrated with his daughter to the United States, where his daughter Oksana Stworennja-Burewij gave up part of her father's saved artistic legacy.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on Kost Burewij in the Great Russian Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 18, 2019 (Russian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Kost Burewij (1888) in calendarium.com.ua ; accessed on April 18, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Entry on Burevii, Kost in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 19, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Kost Burewij in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 19, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Entry on Hryhorij Kossynka in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 18, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Burewij, Kost
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burewij, Kost Stepanowytsch (full name); Буревій, Кость Степанович (Ukrainian); Буревой, Кость Степанович (Russian); Сопляков, Константин Степанович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet, playwright, theater scholar, literary critic and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolschije Meschenki , Voronezh Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1934
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR