Stepan Vasylchenko

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Stepan Vasylchenko
Memorial plaque to Vasylchenko at his place of work in Torezk

Stepan Wassylowytsch Wassyltschenko ( Ukrainian Степан Васильович Васильченко * December 27, 1878 . Jul / 8. January  1879 greg. In Ichnia , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 11. August 1932 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian teacher and writer .

Life

Vasylchenko was born to a poor farming family. From 1886 he attended school in his hometown and, as the best student in his year, received a two-year scholarship to train as a teacher. In 1895 he began a three-year teacher training course in Kiev, which he completed in 1898. He possessed pedagogical talent and set up evening classes for adults, but was classified as "unreliable" for his commitment to teaching Ukrainian. He was interested in folk art , the writings of Taras Shevchenko and Marko Wowtschok, as well as the classics of world literature .

After his studies he became a teacher in Kaniw and two years later in Bohuslaw . During this time, between 1898 and 1904, he kept a diary of a teacher's notes . On December 19, 1903 Jul. / January 1,  1904 greg. he published his first work, From the life of the national teacher, in the Kiev newspaper . In 1904 he went to the Teachers' Institute in Hluchiw , which he left a year later to become a teacher in the village of Shcherbynivka in Donbass (now the city of Torezk ).

In 1906 he was arrested for participating in workers' strikes. After 18 months in prison, he received exemption from prison in 1908, but was banned from teaching. He then returned to his hometown and gave private lessons there. From 1910 to 1914 he was head of the theater section of the Rada newspaper . His works, created during this time, were permeated with love for the working people and the belief in the victory of justice. In 1911 a collection of his short story sketches and in 1915 the collection of stories was published.

During the First World War , Vasylchenko was a soldier in the Russian Army on the Russian Western Front until the February Revolution of 1917 . He reflected the horrors of the war in several stories. In 1919 he wrote more stories in Kamianets-Podilskyi , where he now lived. With a choir he toured many towns in the left bank of Ukraine in 1920 . From 1921 he worked in Kiev as a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature and as the head of a children's home and continued to work in literature. Stepan Vasylchenko died in Kiev in 1932 and was buried in the local Baikowe cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stepan Vasylchenko's biography on ukrtvory; accessed on July 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Stepan Vasylchenko's biography on dovidka; accessed on July 12, 2016 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Vasylchenko, Stepan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Васильченко, Степан Васильович (Ukrainian); Wassylchenko, Stepan Wassylowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Itschnja , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1932
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic