Olena Pchilka
Olha Petrivna Kosach Ольга Петрівна Косач | |
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| Born | June 29, 1849 Hadiach, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | October 4, 1930 (aged 81) Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Pen name | Olena Pchilka |
| Occupation | writer, civil activist |
| Language | Ukrainian |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Exemplary Boarding School of Noble Maidens (Kiev) |
| Spouse | Petro Antonovych Kosach |
| Children | Lesia Ukrainka |
Olha Petrivna Kosach (29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka (Template:Lang-uk), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov and the mother of Lesya Ukrainka, Olga Kosach-Kryvyniuk, Mykhajlo Kosach, Oxana Kosach-Shymanovska, Mykola Kosach, Izydora Kosach-Borysova and Yurij Kosach.[1]
Early years
Pchilka was born in Hadiach, into the family of a local landowner Petro Yakymovych Drahomanov. She received a basic education at home and completed her education at the Exemplary Boarding School of Noble Maidens (Kiev) in 1866. She married Petro Antonovych Kosach sometime in 1868 and soon moved to Novohrad-Volynsky, where he worked. Her daughters Lesya Ukrainka was born there. Pchilka is, perhaps, the most well-known Ukrainian female poet. She died in Kiev, aged 81.[2]
Pchilka recorded folk songs, folk customs and rites, and collected folk embroidery in Volhynia, later publishing her research.
She published numerous works, and was active in the feminist movement, particularly in cooperation with Natalia Kobrynska with whom she published an almanac in Lemberg "Pershyi Vinok".
Interpreter
Pchilka also was an interpreter and translated into the Ukrainian language many famous works, such as those of Nikolai Gogol, Adam Mickiewicz, Aleksandr Pushkin and others.
Works
Among the most prominent of her works are the following:
- "Tovaryshky" (Comradesses, 1887),
- "Svitlo dobra i lyubovi"(The light of goodness and love, 1888),
- "Soloviovyi spiv" (Nightingale singing, 1889),
- "Za pravdoyu" (For a truth, 1889),
- "Artyshok" (Artichoke, 1907),
- "Pivtora oseledsya" (One and a half herring, 1908),
- a play "Suzhena ne ohuzhena" (1881),
- a play "Svitova rich" (World thing, 1908) and others.
References
- ^ Olga, Kosach-Kryvyniuk (1970). Леся Українка: Хронологія життя і творчості. New-York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Aleksandr Mikhaĭlovich Prokhorov (1982). Great Soviet encyclopedia. Macmillan. p. 185.
