Maksym Rylskyi

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Maksym Rylskyi

Maksym Tadejowytsch Rylskyj ( Ukrainian Максим Тадейович Рильський ; born March 19, 1895 in Kiev ; † July 24, 1964 ibid) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, political writer.

Life

He came from a Polish noble family. His father, the ethnographer Tadej Rylskyj , was the son of the Polish landowner Rozesław Rylski and Countess Melanie Trubetskaja. His mother was a simple farmer from the village of Romaniwka .

Young Maksym first studied at home, then attended a private high school in Kiev . After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the University of Kiev , then at the historical-philological faculty at the People's University of Kiev, but dropped out before graduation. From 1919 to 1926 he worked as a primary school teacher.

In 1910 he published his first collection of poems, “ На білих островах ” (On the White Isles). In the 1920s, along with Mykola Serow , Jurij Klen , Mychajlo Draj-Chmara and Pawlo Fylypowytsch, he was a member of the “ Ukrainian Neoclassics ” group of artists . In the following decade ten collections of poetry appeared,

Maksym Rylskyj translated many works of world literature into Ukrainian, including a. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand , Hernani by Victor Hugo , Maiden of Orleans by Voltaire , King Lear by William Shakespeare , Eugene Onegin by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin and Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz . He also wrote the libretto for Mykola Lyssenko's opera Taras Bulba .

On charges of unlawful criticism of the Soviet regime, he was arrested by the NKVD in 1931 and sentenced to one year in prison. The other members of the "New Classics Group" were also arrested and killed during the great terror of 1937 .

After leaving prison in 1932, Rylskyj avoided any criticism of the Soviet regime and thus survived the period of terror around 1937. In addition to poems in the spirit of socialist realism , he wrote apolitical lyrical poems. He also translated scientific works on linguistics and literary studies . In 1943 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR .

Maksym Rylskyj's tomb in the Baikowe cemetery

From 1944 to 1964 he held the post of director of the Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1960 and the Stalin Prize in 1943 and 1950 . In 1964 he was made an honorary doctorate from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow .

He had been a member of the CPSU since 1943 , a member of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine from 1946 and chairman of the Ukrainian Writers' Union from 1943 to 1946 .

Rylskyj died at the age of 69 in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

Web links

Commons : Maksym Rylskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Maksym Tadejowytsch Rylskyj membership page, accessed on November 30, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nas.gov.ua
  2. About us - Website of the Writers' Union , accessed on October 18, 2014 (Ukrainian)
  3. biography on the website of the necropolis ; accessed on November 30, 2016 (Ukrainian)