Wassyl Koroliv

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Wassyl Koroliv

Vasyl Kostjantynowytsch Koroliw ( Ukrainian Василь Костянтинович Королів , pseudonym Василь Королів-Старий Wassyl Koroliw-Staryj * February 4 . Jul / 16th February  1879 greg. In Dykanka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 11. December 1941 in Mělník in Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , German Empire ) was a Ukrainian writer , journalist and political activist. He was the husband ofNatalena Korolewa .

Life

Wassyl Koroliw was born in Dykanka in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava in 1879 . He studied at the Poltava Theological Seminary and then graduated from the Kharkiv Veterinary Institute. From 1902 he worked as a veterinarian and published brochures on the care and treatment of animals. He took part in the Ukrainian national movement and was arrested and imprisoned in 1906 for organizing a peasant association. After his release, he was under police supervision, and worked as a journalist in Kiev for the Ukrainian newspapers Рада Rada , Хлібороб Chliborob and Засів Sasiv , as co-founder and editor at the publishing house Час Tschas and the magazine Книгар Knyhar .

His wife Natalena Korolewa (1888–1966) in 1905

On March 7, 1917 he was elected as a member of the Central Na Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic and became a board member of the Kiev Proswita . In 1919 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Prague in Czechoslovakia . There he married the Ukrainian writer Natalena Korolewa , who had emigrated here and whom he already knew from Kiev. As a writer, artist, politician and ethnographer, he was a special role model for his wife, who began to write in Ukrainian under his influence. So he became the first critic and editor of his wife's Ukrainian literary attempts. Together they bought a small house on the outskirts of Mělník near Prague. He earned his living as a lecturer at the Ukrainian Business Academy in Poděbrady .

On December 11, 1941, the Gestapo summoned him for questioning in German-occupied Prague because he was suspected of having connections with the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists . After the interrogation was over, he was released, but due to the grueling interrogation he had a heart attack that evening, from which he died. He was born in Mělník in the Sv. Václav, like his wife later, is buried.

Work (selection)

Koroliw wrote textbooks on zoology and animal physiology, children's stories and plays, and translated works by Czech writers into Ukrainian. His main works were the novel Хмелик Chmelyk (Prague, 1920), the collection of fairy tales Нечиста сила Netschysta syla (Kiev, 1923) and the fairy tale Русалка-жаба Russalka-schaba ( Lviv 1923).

Prose:

  • Вовкулака Хреб Wowkulaka Chreb
  • Дідько Didko
  • Дюдя Djudja
  • Злидні Slydni
  • Літавиця Litavytsja
  • Мавка Вербинка Mawka Werbynka
  • Мара Mara
  • Нечиста сила Netschysta syla
  • Перелесник Perelesnyk
  • Потерчата Potertschata
  • Потороча Хрипка Potorotscha Chrypka
  • Рибалчина русалонька Rybalchyna russalonka
  • Хуха-моховинка Chucha-mochowynka
  • Чортова перечниця Chortowa perechnytsja

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography of Wassyl Koroliw on dovidka.biz.ua ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Koroliv-Stary, Vasyl in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Wassyl Koroliw ; on the website ukrlit.org - public electronic library of Ukrainian fiction ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Natalena Korolewa in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b Правнучка украинского Дракулы (Eng. Great -granddaughter of the Ukrainian Dracula ) on interesniy.kiev.ua ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Russian)
  6. ↑ Natalena Korolewa on dovidka.biz.ua ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  7. ↑ Wassyl Koroliw, Life and Creativity in the Library of Ukrainian Literature ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  8. ↑ Works by Wassyl Koroliw ; on the website ukrlit.org - public electronic library of Ukrainian fiction ; accessed on April 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Koroliv, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koroliv, Wassyl Kostjantynowytsch (full name); Королів, Василь Костянтинович (Ukrainian); Королів-Старий, Василь (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer, journalist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dykanka , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1941
Place of death Mělník , German Empire