Wassyl Bobynskyi

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Wassyl Bobynskyi

Vasyl Petrowytsch Bobynskyj ( Ukrainian Василь Петрович Бобинський , Russian Василий Петрович Бобинский Vasily Petrovich Bobinski * 11. March 1898 in Krystynopil , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary , † 2. January 1938 in a gulag , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian writer, Journalist and translator.

Life

Wassyl Bobynskyj was born in 1898 in Krystynopil in the Galician district of Sokal , today's Tscherwonohrad in the Ukrainian Oblast of Lviv , as the son of a family of railway workers and graduated from high schools in Lemberg and Vienna . He took part in the First World War from 1916 as a soldier in the Ukrainian Sitscher Riflemen and between 1918 and 1920 he was a soldier in the Ukrainian Galician Army ( Червона Українська Галицька Армія (ЧУГА) ). During this time his first publications were printed. In 1919, the collection of poems В притворі храму W prytwori chramu (in German: church narthex ) , which was characterized by his aesthetic modernist research, was published. Until 1920 he fought on the side of the Ukrainian Galician army, until he became a communist in Kiev and switched to the side of the Red Army . In Kiev he also met the Ukrainian modern poets Dmytro Sahul and Yakiv Savchenko .

In autumn 1921 he returned to Lviv, which was now part of the Second Polish Republic , and from 1923 was involved in the publication of various legal and illegal publications of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine ( Комуністична партія Західної України ), for which he was imprisoned for the first time in 1923. He worked as an editor of the weekly newspaper Switlo ( Світло ) and from November 1927 he was editor of the monthly magazine Вікна Wikna , around which the Galician proletarian writers concentrated. Thanks to the activities of this newspaper, the first meeting of proletarian writers of Western Ukraine was held in May 1929 and the proletarian literary group Горно Horno , of which he was the organizer, together with Yaroslav Halan, was founded. On May 1, 1926, the newspaper Switlo was closed by the Polish police and Bobynskyj was imprisoned for 5 months in a prison in which Ivan Franko was already incarcerated. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution , on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution , he was awarded the People's Commissariat's Prize for Education of the Ukrainian SSR for his poem "The Death of Franko" ( Смерть Франка ), which he wrote while in prison .

After his release he emigrated, with the recommendation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine , in the early 1930s with his wife and son in the Bolshevik Ukraine to Kharkiv , where he at the Literature Institute Taras Shevchenko of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR took up studies. He was arrested on December 25, 1933 and sentenced on February 28, 1934 to three years imprisonment in a prison and labor camp for secret service activities abroad and in Soviet Ukraine and assigned to the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal . Not long after his release, he was arrested again in 1937 and sentenced to maximum punishment (shooting) on January 2, 1938 under Article 58-6 of the RSFSR Criminal Code . The sentence was carried out on January 2, 1938. On October 26, 1956, he was posthumously rehabilitated.

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Wassyl Bobynskyj wrote poems and leaflets against the Polish authorities and the Church. His poetry was distinguished by its depth, the elegance of the form and the brightness of images. His literary legacy consists of the collections " В притворі храму W prytwori chramu " (1919), "The Night of Love" (1923), "The Mystery of Dance" (1924), poetry 1920-1928 (1930) and the poem " The death of Franco ”( Смерть Франка ). He was also active as a literary critic, spoke fluent Polish, Russian, French and German and translated works from Russian , Polish and French into Ukrainian. He was fascinated by Western European literature, especially the French poet Arthur Rimbaud , whom he also translated.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Article on Wassyl Bobynskyj on ukrlib.com.ua ; accessed on April 13, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Wassyl Bobynskyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on April 13, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e entry on Wassyl Bobynskyj in 1576 - "Library of the Ukrainian World"; accessed on April 13, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ entry to Wassyl Bobynskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 13, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Bobynskyj, Vasyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bobynskyj, Vasyl Petrowytsch (full name); Бобинський, Василь Петрович (Ukrainian); Бобинский, Василий Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Krystynopil , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1938
Place of death in a gulag , Soviet Union