Olena Ptschilka
Olena Ptschilka ( Ukrainian Олена Пчілка ; born June 17 . Jul / 29. June 1849 greg. In Hadiach , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 4. October 1930 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian writer, journalist and ethnologist .
Her real name was Olha Petrivna Kossatsch (Ukrainian Ольга Петрівна Косач ).
family
Olena Ptschilka was the daughter of Petro Drahomanow and the sister of Mychajlo Drahomanow . She was married to the State Councilor, lawyer, educator and philanthropist Petro Kossatsch ( Петро Антонович Косач 1842-1909). They had the following children together: the physicist, meteorologist, writer and translator Mychajlo Kossatsch ( Михайло Петрович Косач ; 1869–1903), the famous Ukrainian poet Lesja Ukrajinka (1871–1913), the writer, literary critic Krywynatsch-Olha , and bibliography (1877-1945), the musician and translator Oksana Kossatsch-Schymanowska ( Оксана Петрівна Косач-Шимановська ; 1882-1975), the public figure Mykola Kossatsch ( Микола Петрович Косач ; 1884-1937) and the translator and cultural activist Isydora Kossatsch- Boryssowa ( Ізидора Петрівна Косач-Борисова ; 1888-1980).
Life
Olena Ptschilka was a corresponding member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from 1925 . She researched Ukrainian folk songs, folk customs and rites, which she published in 1876.
She also collected folk embroidery in Volhynia, financed the publication of Stepan Rudanskyj's work Spivomovky and, from 1883, published her own poems in the Lviv magazine Zoria . As a women's rights activist, she and Natalija Kobrynska published the first feminist almanac Pershyi vinok in 1887 . From the 1890s she lived in Kiev, where she was editor-in-chief and publisher of the magazine Ridnyj Krai ( Рідний Край ) and its monthly supplement, the children's magazine Moloda Ukrajina ( Молода Україна ) (1908-1914) between 1906 and 1914 . Ptschilka translated many works by Nikolai Gogol , Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin, among others , into Ukrainian .
In the last years of her life she was subjected to repression by the GPU . Ptschilka died in Kiev and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .
Web links
- Article on Olena Ptschilka in Mother Ukraine (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ entry to Pchilka, Olena in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on July 2, 2016
- ↑ Biography Olena Ptschilka on "Ukrainian Literature"; accessed on July 2, 2016 (Ukrainian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ptschilka, Olena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пчілка, Олена (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer, journalist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hajach , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 1930 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |