Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska

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Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska (Ukrainian : Людмила Старицька-Черняхівська, 17 August 1868, Kyiv, Ukraine – 1941, unknown) was a Ukrainian writer, translator, and literary critic.

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Family

Born into a family of Ukrainian intelligentsia, Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska grew up in an atmosphere of appreciation of the arts and national values. [1] Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska, like other Ukrainians, including her family, had a tragic life and unfair death due to Russification policy.

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska's family members include:

Arrests and death

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska in 1919 became a co-founder and deputy president of the National Council of Ukrainian Women. [3]

In her sixties, Liudmyla was first arrested and convicted during a show-trial of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine in 1930, with 44 other defendants. She was imprisoned and exiled. In June 1941, the 73-year-old woman was again arrested, accused of carrying out anti-Soviet activities, and tortured. Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska died during the journey to exile in Kazakhstan [4] and her body was thrown from the train at a location still unknown.

Major works

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska wrote poetry, prose, drama, memoirs and literary criticism for various publications including the Lviv almanac, Pershyi Vinok.

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Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska

Dramatic works

1913 – Wings ('Kryla')

1917 – The Last Sheaf ('Ostanniy snip')

1918 – Hetman Petro Doroshenko

1926 – Bandit Karmeliuk ('Rozbiynyk Karmeliuk')

1927 – Ivan Mazepa

Memoirs

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska's memoirs include:

Other literary works

1893Before the Storm (Pered bureiu), is a historical novel, which was published in instalments in Pravda, Lviv journal, during 1893–1894. The author never finished the novel.

1899The Living Grave ('Zhyva Mohyla') was Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska's first major work. The novel was published in Kyivan Antiquity journal. The topic of the novel is the love of two young people. The story is intertwined with the elements of Ukrainian folklore and legends. [5] There is some parallel between The Living Grave and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet along with Gottfried August Bürger's Lenore . The novel is also a fine representative piece of Ukrainian Romanticism and reminiscent of such earlier Ukrainian Romantic works as Levko Borovykovskyi's ballad Marusia (1829) and Mykola Hohol's (Nikolai Gogol) long tale A Terrible Vengeance (1831–32). [6]

In 2015 Sova Books published its English translation of The Living Grave. One of the interesting facts about the publication is that on its cover the book depicts Daryna, the main heroine of the story and as a little tribute to the author of the story the publisher reproduced her face relying on one of Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska's photographs.[ citation needed ]

1929Diamond Ring ('Diamantovyi persten') was finished by the author six weeks before her first arrest. The manuscript remained unpublished for 64 years, until it appeared in Zona journal in 1993.

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References

  1. Mykhailo Starytsky and His Descendants , Anatoly Medzyk, Day Newspaper, 17 September 2002
  2. Steshenko Oksana Encycylopedia of Ukraine
  3. Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska Petro Odarchenko, Internet Encyclopaedia of Ukraine
  4. Turning pages back , The Ukrainian Weekly, 28 August 1994, page 6
  5. Gothic Tales from Stalin’s ‘Enemies’ Translated into English , Sova Books
  6. Krys, Svitlana (2016) ‘Book Review: Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska, The Living Grave: A Ukrainian Legend and Klym Polishchuk, Treasure of the Ages: Ukrainian Legends’, EWJUS: East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Vol 3, No 2, pp. 213-215.