Pavlo Tychyna
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
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Павло Григорович Тичина | |
Transl. : | Pavlo Hryhorovyč Tyčyna |
Transcr. : | Pavlo Hryhorowytsch Tychyna |
Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
Па́вел Григо́рьевич Тычи́на | |
Transl .: | Pavel Grigor'evič Tyčina |
Transcr .: | Pavel Grigoryevich Tychina |
Pavlo Hryhorowytsch Tychyna (born January 15 . Jul / 27. January 1891 greg. In Pisky , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 16th September 1967 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Soviet - Ukrainian poet, translator and politician.
Life
At the beginning of his career, Tichyna wrote poems with a political content that were shaped by pantheistic elements and nationalistic ideas. The 1920s were the heyday of his poetic work. His impressionistic, strongly philosophical and folk poetry musical poems made him the most outstanding Ukrainian poet of his time. Tytschyna's later poems in the style of socialist realism were entirely in keeping with the party doctrine and dealt largely with socialist construction in the Soviet Union. Furthermore, Tytschyna made a name for himself as a translator (including Russian, Turkish, Polish, German, Armenian and Lithuanian).
Pavlo Tichyna had been an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR since 1929 and head of the Academy's Institute of Literature between 1936 and 1939 and again from 1941 to 1943. In 1949 he wrote the text for the anthem of the Ukrainian SSR . From 1938 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR and from 1953 to 1959 its chairman. Between 1943 and 1948 he was Minister of Education of the Ukrainian SSR. He died in Kiev and was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery .
Honors
In 1941 he received the Stalin Prize , in 1962 the Taras Shevchenko Prize and in 1967 the title " Hero of Socialist Labor ". He was also awarded the Order of Lenin five times and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor twice .
In 2011, the Ukrainian National Bank issued a five hryvnia commemorative coin with his likeness on the occasion of Pavlo Tychyna's 120th birthday .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article Tytschyna in the universal dictionary ; Retrieved May 19, 2016
- ↑ Ukrainian literature of the present; Jurij Kossatsch, PUBLISHING “UKRAINIAN CULTURE”, REGENSBURG 1947 , page 16; Retrieved May 19, 2016
- ↑ a b c d Article on Tychyna, Pavlo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; Retrieved May 19, 2016
- ↑ a b How is the Paul Tychyna Museum to be kept? Article on interesniy.kiev.ua; accessed on May 19, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Biography Pavlo Tichyna bbc Ukraine; Retrieved May 19, 2016
- ^ Pavlo Tychyna on Geo-Kiev ; Retrieved May 19, 2016
- ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on May 19, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Tychyna, Pavlo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tychyna, Pavlo Hryhorowytsch (full name); Тичина, Павло Григорович (Ukrainian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet-Ukrainian poet, translator and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 27, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pisky , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1967 |
Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |