Mychajlo Semenko

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Миха́йло Васи́льович Семе́нко
Transl. : Mychajlo Vasyl'ovyč Semenko
Transcr. : Mychajlo Vasylowytsch Semenko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Михаил Васильевич Семенко
Transl .: Mikhail Vasil'evič Semenko
Transcr .: Mikhail Vasilyevich Semenko
Mychajlo Semenko

Mykhailo Semenko Wassylowytsch (born December 19 . Jul / 31 December  1892 greg. In Kybynzi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 23. October 1937 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian writer and exponent of the Ukrainian Futurism .

Life

Semenko studied between 1911 and 1914 at the Neuropsychiatric Institute in Saint Petersburg . His first publication was the collection of poems Prelude in 1913. In 1914 he went to Kiev, but after the outbreak of the First World War he went to Vladivostok , where he worked as a telegraph between 1916 and 1917 and joined the underground group of the RSDLP (b). In 1917 he returned to Kiev, where he was a leader in the revival and development of national Ukrainian literature.

On April 26, 1937, he was arrested, along with other Ukrainian writers, by the NKVD and charged with "active counter-revolutionary activities". He was sentenced on October 23, 1937, and on the same day he was shot in a Kiev prison and then buried in a mass grave in the Bykivna forest .

In the mid-1960s, Semenko was rehabilitated.

Web links

Commons : Mychajlo Semenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mychajlo Semenko biography at Poetry Club ; accessed on November 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Biographical article on Mychajlo Semenko "Semenko, from futurism to terrorism" in literary accent from December 27, 2012; accessed on November 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Article on Semenko, Mykhailo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on November 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Semenko, Mychajlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Semenko, Mychajlo Wassylowytsch (full name); Семе́нко, Миха́йло Васи́льович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kybynzi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1937
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR