Olga Vasilievna Duchiminskaya ( Ukrainian: Olga Vasilivna Duchiminska , nee Reshetilovich ; June 8, 1883 - September 24, 1988 , Ivano-Frankivsk ) - Ukrainian writer, literary critic, translator, cultural and educational figure in Ukraine. Researcher of ethnography and folklore of the historical regions of Ukraine - Hutsul and Boykovschina .
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Biography
She graduated from a teacher’s seminary in Przemysl ( 1902 ) and until 1930 worked as a teacher in rural schools in Western Ukraine (the longest, for 18 years, in the village of Tyapche ). She made her debut in print in 1905 , when the classic of Ukrainian literature Ivan Franko published her poem “Last Sounds” in the Lviv newspaper Dilo. Olga Duchiminskaya published early poems under the pseudonym Irma Ostapovna ( Ukrainian Irma Ostapіvna ), and her only lifetime collection of poems, “Inflorescence of forget-me-nots” ( Ukrainian Kititsya nezabudkiv ), was published in 1911 in Chernivtsi with a foreword by Mikoly Wengi . I. S. Nechuy-Levitsky noted the book of Irma Ostapovna as one of the few examples of the work of poets of Galicia in pure Ukrainian, not affected by polonization [1] .
Acquaintance with Olga Kobylyanskaya and Natalia Kobrinskaya involved Duchiminskaya in the circle of activists of the Ukrainian women's movement. Since 1912 she was co-editor of the book series “Women's Library” ( Ukrainian. Zhinocha library), published various articles of a feminist orientation. A number of works by Duchiminsky were dedicated to Kobylian and Kobrinsk, about which she later wrote memoirs.
In the 1930s and 40s Duchiminsky lived in Lviv , doing ethnographic research, traveled a lot in the Hutsul and Boykov regions, and organized women's courses in the villages.
On November 23, 1949 , Duchiminskaya was arrested on charges of involvement in organizing the murder of Yaroslav Galan . In 1951 , a 68-year-old writer was sentenced by a military tribunal to 25 years in prison. Until 1958, she was in Siberian camps , after which she was amnestied. After her release, she lived with friends in Lviv, Sambir , Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk; for some time she was sheltered by Irina Wilde , the last 15 years of her life Duchiminskaya lived with Miroslava Antonovich - cousin of Stepan Bandera . Occasionally published in the newspaper Chervony Prapor ( Kolomyia ) and in the Warsaw Ukrainian editions. Died at the age of 105.
Despite her long life, Duchiminskaya was rehabilitated after her death on November 24, 1992. In 1998, V. Pakhomov's dissertation was dedicated to her career, in 2001 this work was published as a monograph. The volume of the selected prose by Duchiminsky “Sad Christ” ( Ukrainian: Sumny Christ ) was published in 1992, and selected poems in 1996.
Notes
- ↑ Nechui-Levitsky I. Krivo zerkalo ukrainskiy movi Archived copy of November 28, 2013 at Wayback Machine - Kiev, 1912. - P. 51.
Links
- Volodimir Pakhomov . Creativity recession O. Duchiminsky (Ukrainian)