Valeryan Polishchuk
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| Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
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| Валерян Львович Поліщук | |
| Transl. : | Valerjan L'vovyč Poliščuk |
| Transcr. : | Valeryan Lvovych Polishchuk |
| Cyrillic ( Russian ) | |
| Валериан Львович Полищук | |
| Transl .: | Valerian L'vovič Poliščuk |
| Transcr .: | Valeryan Lvovich Polishchuk |
Walerjan Lwowytsch Polishchuk (born September 19 jul. / 1. October 1897 greg. In Biltsche , volhynian governorate , Russian Empire ; † 3. November 1937 in Sandarmoch , Karelia , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, literary theorist , journalist and victim of the Stalin Purges in the Soviet Union.
Life
Valeryan Polishchuk was born into a farming family in the village of Bilche in today's Demydivka district , in the southwest of the Ukrainian Rivne Oblast . He went to school in Lutsk from 1911 to 1913 and to high school in Yekaterinoslav from 1914 to 1917 . He then studied at the Saint Petersburg Institute for Civil Engineering, but after a short time switched to the historical-philological faculty of the Ukrainian University in Kamyanets-Podilskyj .
His first work was published in 1918. After completing his studies, he worked as a journalist in Yekaterinoslav, Kamianets-Podilskyj, Kiev and Kharkiv and made personal acquaintances with Mykola Chwylowyj , Valerjan Pidmohylnyj and in Kiev with Pavlo Tichyna . In 1919 he became a member of the Ukrainian Party of Social Revolutionaries . During the period after the First World War, depending on the changing balance of power in Ukraine, he was arrested several times.
Polischuk was arrested in 1934 and, along with other Ukrainian writers, accused of belonging to a fictitious anti-Soviet "Ukrainian National Socialist Party". In 1935 he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in a gulag on the Solovetsky Islands . During the Great Terror , the author of the "executed rebirth" was executed on the occasion of a mass execution shortly before the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution on November 3, 1937 in the penal camp in Sandarmoch, Karel , together with other Ukrainian personalities such as Myroslaw Irtschan , Mykola Serow , Valerjan Pidmohylnyj , Les Kurbas and Mykola Kulisch shot and buried there. In the late 1950s he was officially rehabilitated posthumously during the " thaw period ".
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Polishchuk worked as a writer, literary critic and literary theorist. He created more than 50 works of poetry and prose, essays, as well as children's and youth literature. After his rehabilitation, editions of his works were published in 1960 and 1987.
Web links
- Entry on Valeryan Polishchuk in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Valeryan Polishchuk in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on December 17, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Entry on Valeryan Polishchuk in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 17, 2017
- ↑ a b Library of Ukrainian Literature (biography) on ukrlib.com.ua ; accessed on December 17, 2017 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Polishchuk, Valeryan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Polishchuk, Valeryan Lvovych (full name); Поліщук, Валер'ян Львович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer, literary critic, literary theorist, publicist and victim of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biltsche , Volyn Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1937 |
| Place of death | Sandarmoch , Karelia , Soviet Union |