Nikolay Ugrin-Bezgreshny ( December 18, 1883 , Kupyatichi - January 18, 1960 , New Ulm ) - Ukrainian poet, writer and diplomat.
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Biography
He graduated from the gymnasium and the philosophical faculty of the University in Chernivtsi, traveled to greater Ukraine many times. In 1914, he brought a hundred of his graduates from the Rogatinskaya Gymnasium and joined them in the OSS legion , then in the UGA , and served in the 6th division . He was a consul of the UPR in Poland , in the city of Stanislavov , then returned to the front, where he rose to the centurion . In 1919, he rebelled against Romania, and was in a Bucharest prison.
During the German occupation, he was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the newspaper "Rogatinskoe Slovo" ( Ukrainian "Rogatinskoe Slovo" ) in the city of Rogatin . So, on November 21, 1941, the newspaper wrote:
“The population of villages on both sides of Zbruch is exclusively Ukrainian, and it must be added, nationally conscious. In cities it is natural - there is a certain percentage of Jews , today it is already undoubtedly reduced, and in Galicia there is still some admixture of Poles . The Jews in the villages were liquidated in one way or another, which took on quite “festive” forms in some villages (for example, they gathered Jews together, told them to carry banners with inscriptions like: “We were your oppressors”, “We are spies , we demand punish us ”, etc.). The external character of villages and cities is purely Ukrainian. Today, Ukrainian and German flags are flying everywhere in villages and cities. ” [one]
He welcomed the creation, and subsequently joined the SS division "Galicia" . With the approach of the Red Army, he moved to Bayreuth , where he taught and published the Horizon, Thunder magazines, and printed the OSS Prayer. Later settled in New Ulm. Here he also continued publishing. In the 1950s, he edited the issue of the Bulletin of the USS Press Apartment . Then, a few years before his death, he wrote an autobiographical work, "My Biography." He died in 1960, was buried in the cemetery of the German city of Neu-Ulm .
Memory
In modern Ukraine , a street in Rogatin is named after him, and a memorial museum-estate was built in his honor in the house where he lived. [2]
Publications
A collection of poems “Experiments” ( 1905 ), stories “From the life of gymnasium students” ( 1907 , 1928 ), plays “The Red Example directed” ( 1903 ), “Sofia Galechko” ( 1924 and 1943 ), “Knights of the Iron Bail” ( 1938 ), “Essay on the history of the CSS” ( 1924 ).
See also
- Visvolnaya zmagannya (Ukrainian)
Literature
- Ukrainian Small Encyclopedia , t. 15. - Buenos Aires, 1966 .