Mychajlo Staryzkyj
Mychajlo Petrowytsch Staryzkyj ( Ukrainian Михайло Петрович Старицький ; * December 2, July / December 14, 1840 greg. In Klishchynzi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † April 14, July / 27 April 1904 greg. In Kiev ) was a Ukrainian cultural activist, writer, poet and playwright.
Life
Mychajlo Staryzkyj was born in a village in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Cherkassy . After he became an orphan in childhood, his uncle, the father of the composer Mykola Lysenko , took over his upbringing. Staryzkyj went to school in Poltava until 1856 , studied at Kharkiv University between 1856 and 1860 and at Kiev University from 1860 to 1866 .
From 1867 he worked with Mykola Lyssenko in Kiev. He collected and transcribed folk songs, which he published together with the music of Lyssenko. He also wrote libretti for many of his operas, including that of Taras Bulba . After the Ems Decree he had to emigrate in 1878 and lived abroad until 1880. After he was back in Ukraine he worked as a publisher and in 1883 founded the first professional Ukrainian theater together with Marko Kropywnyzkyj . Between 1885 and 1891 he directed his own theater group. In 1895 he stopped his theater work in order to devote himself exclusively to literature from then on. He wrote dramas with some melodramatic, social and historical themes. His historical dramas Bohdan Khmelnytskyi from 1897 and Marusja Bohuslawka ( Маруся Богуславка ) from 1899 are particularly important . He also wrote poetry and short stories in Russian and translated works by Shakespeare and Lord Byron into Ukrainian.
Mychajlo Staryzkyj died in Kiev and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .
family
Staryzkyj was the cousin of the composer Mykola Lysenko and the father-in-law of the writer Ivan Steschenko (1873-1918). He married Lyssenko's sister Sofia. His two daughters and his granddaughter were victims of the Stalinist terror as representatives of the "executed rebirth" (ukr. Розстріляне відродження ):
- Lyudmyla Staryzka-Tschernjachiwska (1868–1941) writer, died during deportation
- Oksana Steschenko (Окса́на Миха́йлівна Стеше́нко, 1875–1942) writer, died in the Gulag .
- Weronika Tschernjachiwska (Вероні́ка Олекса́ндрівна Черняхі́вська, 1900–1938) poet, executed.
Web links
- Biography Mychajlo Staryzkyj on "Ukrainian Literature" (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Mychajlo Staryzkyj in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on July 1, 2016
- ^ Entry on Mychajlo Staryzkyj in the Universal Lexicon, 1984
- ↑ Mychajlo Staryzkyj's biography on "ukrclassic.com", accessed on July 1, 2016 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staryzkyj, Mychajlo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Старицький, Михайло Петрович (Ukrainian); Staryzkyj, Mychajlo Petrowytsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian cultural activist, writer, poet and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klishchynzi , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1904 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Russian Empire |