Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj

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Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj 1898
Kotsubinsky Sig.jpg
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Михайло Михайлович Коцюбинський
Transl. : Mychajlo Mychajlovyč Kocjubyns'kyj
Transcr. : Mychajlo Mychajlowytsch Kozjubynskyj
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Михаил Михайлович Коцюбинский
Transl .: Michail Michajlovič Kocjubinskij
Transcr .: Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozjubinsky
Group picture at the opening of a monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky in Poltava in 1903. From left to right: Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj, Wassyl Stefanyk , Olena Ptschilka , Lesja Ukrajinka , Mychajlo Staryzkyj , Hnat Chotkewytsch , Volodymyr Samijlenko

Mykhaylo Mychajlowytsch Kozjubynskyj (born September 5, jul. / 17th September  1864 greg. In Vinnitsa , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire ; † April 12 . Jul / 25. April  1913 . Greg in Chernihiv , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire) was a of the most important Ukrainian writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life

Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj grew up in Vinnytsia, Bar and other places in Podolia . After graduating from school, he studied at the priestly school in Sharhorod and from 1880 at the theological seminary in Kamyanets-Podilskyj . However, he had to leave school in 1882 due to "populist participation" and remained under police supervision for the rest of his life. He initially worked as a teacher and maintained contacts with the Narodniki . After moving to Chernihiv in 1898, he worked there as a statistician. He visited Galicia for the first time in 1890, where he met numerous Ukrainian personalities such as Ivan Franko and Volodymyr Hnatjuk . Since then he has maintained contact with many Galician intellectuals and editors, who published his stories from 1890 onwards. At the beginning of 1905 he started a journey that took him to Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and the south of France.

He began his writing activity with realistic stories. Later, under the influence of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant , as well as Taras Shevchenko , Marko Wowtschok , Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Heinrich Heine , Émile Zola and Victor Hugo, he wrote psychologically profound narratives from the lives of Ukrainian, Moldovan and Crimean Tatar farmers and the Ukrainian intelligentsia during the Russian Revolution of 1905/1906, such as the two-part novel "Fata morgana", written between 1904 and 1910. His romantic love story "Tini sabutych predkiw" ( Тіні забутих предків , in German: "Shadows of forgotten ancestors") from 1911 takes place in the Carpathian Mountains in the Hutsul milieu .

Works (selection)

  • Tvory Kocjubynsʹkyj
  • Shadows of forgotten ancestors
  • Kocjubynsʹkyj
  • From the book of life
  • Novellas
  • Mirage
  • The name day present

Movie

  • The award-winning Soviet film Feuerpferde ( Тіні забутих предків , in English Shadow of Forgotten Ancestors ), released in 1964, is based on his novel.

Web links

Commons : Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry Kotsiubynsky, Mykhailo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 2, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj in the Universal Lexicon ; accessed on May 2, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kozjubynskyj, Mychajlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Коцюбинський, Михайло Михайлович (Ukrainian); Kozjubynskyj, Mychajlo Mychajlowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Vinnytsia , Podolia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1913
Place of death Chernihiv , Chernihiv Governorate , Russian Empire