Pavlo Hrabowskyj

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Pavlo Hrabowskyj

Pavlo Arsenowytsch Hrabowskyj ( Ukrainian Павло Арсенович Грабовський , Russian Павел Арсеньевич Грабовский Pawel Arsenjewitsch Grabowskij ; born August 30, jul. / 11. September  1864 greg. In Puschkarne , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire , † November 29 jul. / 12. December  1902 greg. in Tobolsk , Tobolsk Governorate , Charkow , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator, publicist and political activist.

Life

Pavlo Hrabowskyj arrived in the village Puschkarne ( Пушкарне ), the designated today after him Hrabowske ( Грабовське ) in Ukrainian Sumy to the world. From 1879 he attended the theological seminary in Charkow , but in 1882 he was enrolled in an organization close to the Narodniki , placed under police supervision and deported to his home village. After police supervision ended in the spring of 1885, he returned to Kharkov, where he worked as a newspaper editor and continued his revolutionary work. Since the beginning of his studies, he continued his literary work on an autodidactic basis.

Grave of P. Hrabowskyj in Tobolsk

In the autumn of 1885 he was drafted into the Russian army and transferred first to Turkestan and then to Orenburg . There he was arrested in 1886 for disseminating proclamations against the autocracy and was sent to a Kharkiv prison. In 1888, meanwhile in Moscow's Butyrka prison, he was sentenced to five years' exile in Siberia. He first spent his exile in Balagansk . There he wrote, together with other exiles, a letter of protest to the Russian government against the mistreatment of the exiles in 1889, whereupon the authors were arrested in August 1889 and imprisoned in Irkutsk . In January 1893 he was exiled to Vilyuisk and in 1896 to Yakutsk . In 1899 Hrabowskyj settled in Tobolsk , where he died of tuberculosis in 1902 . He was buried there near the Decembrist graves.

Pawlo Hrabowskyj was the father of the Soviet engineer Borys Hrabowskyj ( Борис Павлович Грабовський , Russian Борис Павлович Грабовский Boris Pavlovich Grabowski ; 1901–1966).

Works

Hrabowskyj was a representative of the Ukrainian revolutionary-democratic poetry of the 1880s. His creative work dealt primarily with social and patriotic issues in the tradition of Taras Shevchenko . The detention in Irkutsk became a turning point for his literary work. After receiving information on literary life in Galicia , he discovered his agreement with Ivan Franko and sent his poems to Galician newspapers for publication.

Hrabowskyj translated, among others, Alexander Pushkin , Mikhail Lermontov , Kondrati Ryleyev , Afanasy Fet , Nikolai Nekrasov , Nikolai Ogarev , Alexei Pleshcheyev , Mikhail Mikhailov (1829-1865), August Harambašić , Ilia Chavchavadze , Henry Longfellow , Akaki Tsereteli , Avetik Issahakjan , Hristo Botev , Maria Konopnicka , Iwan Wasow , Sándor Petőfi , Maurice Maeterlinck , Robert Burns , Voltaire , Walter Scott , Victor Hugo , Charles Baudelaire , Goethe , Heinrich Heine into Ukrainian, but also works of Ukrainian literature into Russian.

Honors

  • In 1952 and 1958 a street was named in his honor in Kiev
  • In Walky there is a memorial in his memory

Web links

Commons : Pawlo Hrabowskyj  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Entry on Pavlo Hrabowskyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. a b c d Entry on Pawlo Hrabowskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. a b Biography of Pavlo Hrabowskyj in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on August 26, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. entry to Pawlo Hrabowskyj in the Encyclopedia of modern Ukraine ; accessed on August 27, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. Pawlo Hrabowskyj in the Kiev Encyclopedia; accessed on August 26, 2018 (Ukrainian)