Spyrydon Cherkassenko

Spyrydon Cherkassenko

Spyrydon Feodosijowytsch Tscherkassenko ( Ukrainian Спиридон Феодосійович Черкасенко ; born December 12, ^jul. / 24. December  1876 ^greg. In Novyi Buh , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire , † 8. February 1940 in Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , German Empire ) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright and teacher who published his works under numerous pseudonyms.

Life

Spyrydon Tscherkassenko was born into a farming family. He attended the school where he was born and graduated from a teacher training college in 1895. Since he was not given any knowledge of the Ukrainian language and literature at school, he wrote his first poems in Russian. After 1895, he served as public school teachers in the villages Nowopawliwka , Vasylivka , Uljaniwka and Juchiw ( Юхів ) of yekaterinoslav governorate operates. In 1901 he gained a permanent position as a teacher in Lidijewskije rudniki ( Russian Лидиевские рудники , today Donetsk ). Here he taught the miners 'children for nine years, which gave him the opportunity to closely observe the miners' everyday life, which was reflected in his poems, stories and plays. Tscherkassenko was involved in the founding of the All-Ukrainian Union of Teachers and in 1906 he represented the Ukrainian delegation at the third Congress of Delegates in Finland. After a drama with anti-imperial content published in 1908 and banned in 1909, he was imprisoned for a month and his right to teach was revoked.

From 1910 he worked in Kiev , where he worked as a newspaper employee and wrote and published satires, short stories and newspaper articles. After all Ukrainian magazines were closed at the beginning of the war , he worked in various administrative positions at the Mykola Sadowskyj theater and was thus involved in the organization of Ukrainian theater life in Kiev. In 1917/18 he was involved in the content and printing of Ukrainian school books. With the Sadowskyj Theater, now the State Theater of the Ukrainian People's Republic , he fled the Bolsheviks in 1919 to Kamjanez-Podilskyj and was sent there by the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic to Vienna to prepare textbooks for the Ukrainian schools. He studied school education in Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany and then went to Vienna to compile and publish Ukrainian books for various publishing houses.

Then the writer went to Uzhhorod and was there, together with Mykola Sadovsky, involved in the establishment of the first professional theater in Transcarpathia . However, in 1932 he had to leave the city under pressure from the authorities and settled in the village of Gornji Chernoshytse on the south-western outskirts of Prague, where he lived in poor conditions in a simple hotel room.

The poet continued his literary activity abroad, but also had to see how the Holodomor led to great suffering in Ukraine and how Ukrainian culture was suppressed and destroyed. After the death of his son, who fell in Carpathian Ukraine in 1939, he fell seriously ill and died at the age of 63 in February 1940.

Web links

• Spyrydon Tscherkassenko in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography Spyrydon Tscherkassenko on dovidka ; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ Cherkasenko Spyridon Feodosiyovych (alias: Provincial, Peter Stakh etc) ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ebrary.net; accessed on March 11, 2017 (English) 
3. ↑ Spyrydon Tscherkassenko's biography on ebk.net ; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
4. ↑ Spyrydon Tscherkassenko's biography in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)