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Lesya Ukrainka
Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and female rights activist.
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culture · Ukrainian poet and writer (1871–1913) · poet · translator · playwright · translator of Adam Mickiewicz · film screenwriter · writer · dramaturge · also Lesya Ukrainka, Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka, Lesia Ukrainka, Larysa Kosach, Ukrainka
Born 13 February 1871 · Died 19 July 1913 · Q298033
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2024· 1 entry
2023· 3 entries
The Irish Times: Lesya Ukrainka National Academic Theatre
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Kyiv Post: Catherine Deneuve Launches Cannes With Lesya Ukrainka Poem
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dw: Lesya Ukrainka: Ukraine's great poet of hope
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2022· 1 entry
culture.pl: Ukrainian Money & Polish Literature: Who Was Lesya Ukrainka?
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2020· 1 entry
The third in the ranking of Ukrainian women search queries in Google Search in Ukraine (the top two was Tina Karol and Olya Polyakova)
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2015· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with National Academic Theatre of Russian Drama Lesya Ukrainka at St. James Theatre
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2001· 1 entry
“On the field of blood. Aceldama”
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1998· 1 entry
A memorial plaque was unveiled on the wall of the house
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1913· 1 entry
Died 1913-07-19.
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1907· 2 entries
Lesya Ukrainka married Klyment Kvitka, a court official, amateur ethnographer and musicologist, whom she had first met in 1898
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By tsarist police and remained under surveillance thereafter
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1905· 1 entry
Because of its relations with revolutionary activists
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1901· 1 entry
Gave the Austro-Marxist Mykola Hankevich a Ukrainian translation of The Communist Manifesto made by "her comrades from Kyiv"
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1897· 1 entry
While being treated in Yalta, Lesya met Siarhej Miaržynski, an official from Minsk who was also receiving treatment for tuberculosis
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1896· 1 entry
Had iodophor injected into her affected joint, surviving the painful operation without anaesthesia
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1892· 1 entry
Heinrich Heine's Book of Songs was published in Lviv, translated by Lesya Ukrainka together with M
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1891· 3 entries
And after a 1901 meeting in Chernivtsi, began writing intimate passages to one another
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Despite receiving mud treatment in Saky, Lesya once again had to use crutches, and started suffering from insomnia
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Slavinsky aided Lesya in revising her translations from Heinrich Heine
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1889· 1 entry
Compiled her famous List of World Literature for translation
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1888· 1 entry
When Ukrainka was seventeen, she and her brother organized a literary circle called Pleyada (The Pleiades), which they founded to promote the development of Ukrainian literature and translation of foreign classics into U
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1886· 1 entry
On the invitation of Dmytro Pylchykov and her brother Mykhailo
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1885· 1 entry
A collection of her translations from Mykola Gogol (made together with Mykhailo) was published in Lviv
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1884· 1 entry
The poems "Lily of the Valley" ["Конвалія"] and "Sappho" ["Сапфо"] were first published in Lviv magazine "Zorya"
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1881· 1 entry
While attending the blessing of water ceremony
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1871· 3 entries
Born 1871-02-13.
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Lesya Ukrainka was born in 1871 in the town of Novohrad-Volynskyi (now Zviahel) in Ukraine.
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In the town of Novohrad-Volynskyi (now Zviahel) in Ukraine
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1868· 1 entry
Kosach married Olha Drahomanova, the sister of his friend Mykhailo Drahomanov, a well-known Ukrainian scientist, historian, philosopher, folklorist, and public figure
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