 | Maksym Shevchenko 11.10.18
The bronze monument was set up in 1980 in front of Chernivtsi Regional Music and Drama Theater, which carries its name. Olga Yulianovna Kobylianska wa.. Read more »s born in 1863 in the city of Gur-Humor in the family of a small servant. Children's years passed in Kimpolung, Suceava and in a family estate in the village. Dimka in Bukovina. She graduated from four classes of folk school, got her education independently. In the autobiography, the writer recalled that she began to write in 14 years. Originally, they were diaries, but at the age of 17 she finished her first prose work, "Hortensia". In 1883, the young author wrote in German the story "Will or Fate", and two years later - "Essays on the life of Bukovina". The 80s are marked in the work of O. Kobilyanska in the growth of literary skill and in the formulation of topical issues of emancipation of women. These topics were reflected in the story "The Tsarivna" (1895), "Man" (1887), and others. In 1891 the family of Kobyliansky moved to Chernivtsi. Here she began public activity as a founder of the Society of Russian Women in Bukovina, opened a library, and taught children of the Ukrainian language. Of great importance to her was a trip to Kiev, where she met Lesia Ukrainka, M. Kotsiubynsky, M. Staritsky, M. Lysenko and others. The peak of creativity of the writer is the story "The Earth" (1901), in which the theme of the fate of the peasants in the capitalist world was acutely expressed. O. Kobylianska entered the Ukrainian literature as a realist writer, master of artistic word. In 1928, the Ukrainian public widely noted the 40th anniversary of the writer's work. A multivolume edition of her works was published in Kharkiv. The fee for this publication allowed the writer to buy his own house, which today houses a literary and memorial museum. O. Kobylianska died and buried in 1942 in Chernivtsi. In honor of O. Kobilyanska in Chernivtsi one of the central streets of the city is named. |