Myroslaw Irtschan
Myroslav Irtschan ( Ukrainian Мирослав Ірчан , maiden name Андрій Дмитрович Баб'юк Andrij Dmytrowytsch Babjuk * 14. July 1897 in Pjadyky , Galicia , Austria-Hungary , † 3. November 1937 in Sandarmoch , Karelia , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, Playwright, translator, literary critic, journalist, historian, publisher and victim of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union.
Life
Myroslaw Irtschan was born into a poor peasant family in the Galician village of Pjadyky in what is now Kolomyja Rajon in the Ukrainian Oblast of Ivano-Frankivsk . In 1914 he graduated from the teacher training college in Lviv and shortly after the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Ukrainian Riflemen and then the Red Ukrainian-Galician Army . During his time as a soldier, he began to write extensively and publish his works.
In 1920 he joined the KPU and in 1921 he moved to Kiev , where he worked as a lecturer at the school of red officers and as the editor of the magazine "Галицький комуніст" ( Halyzkyj komunist , in German Galician Communist ). In 1922/23 he continued his studies at Charles University in Prague and in 1923 he accepted an invitation to Canada to take on editorial and organizational work for the Ukrainian pro-communist left in Winnipeg . In 1929 he moved from Canada to the then capital of the Soviet Ukraine, Kharkov , where he headed the organization of the West Ukrainian communist emigrant writers "Західна Україна" ( Sachidna Ukrajina , in German West Ukraine ) and until 1933 published their monthly magazine of the same name.
At the end of December 1933, he was arrested for allegedly belonging to a counter-revolutionary organization and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp on the Solovetsky Islands . During the Great Terror, on the occasion of a mass execution shortly before the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution , he was shot and buried together with Mykola Serow , Valerjan Pidmohylnyj , Les Kurbas and Mykola Kulisch on November 3, 1937 in the penal camp in Sandarmoch in Karel . His works could not be published, and those already published were removed from the libraries until he was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
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Myroslaw Irtschan wrote about two dozen prose collections, in which he mainly dealt with the Polish-Ukrainian war and the troubles of the Ukrainian peasant life in Galicia and the New World. He himself was the subject of an extensive collection of Soviet-Ukrainian literary studies, including monographs, including one from 1958 by Leonid Novytschenko ( Леонід Миколайович Новиченко ; 1914–1996) and one from 1960 by the Ukrainian-Canadian writer Petro Kravchuk ( ПукучКрчко ; 1911-1997). A selection of his works was published in two volumes in Kiev in 1958.
Web links
- Entry on Myroslaw Irtschan in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry to Myroslav Irtschan in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on December 12, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b Entry on Myroslaw Irtschan in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 12, 2017
- ↑ entry to Myroslaw Irtschan in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on December 12, 2017 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Irtschan, Myroslaw |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ірчан, Мирослав (Ukrainian); Babjuk, Andrij Dmytrowytsch (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian poet, prose writer, playwright, translator, literary critic, journalist, historian, publisher and victim of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 14, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pjadyky , Galicia , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1937 |
| Place of death | Sandarmoch , Karelia , Soviet Union |