Biography of Oleksandra Olesya

Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright, representing symbolism, father of the poet and public figure Oleg Olzhich. Soviet historians tried to cross it forever from the memory of the Ukrainian nation. His poems in the USSR were not published, the name was under an unspoken ban, but he was the idol of Ukrainians before his first collection of poems G. Poet died at the age of 65 in the city of Alexander Olesya to the Ukrainian people.

In Ukrainian culture, the work of poets is of great importance. Ukrainians are traditionally erected to the rank of symbols of eras. The symbol of the whole period of the beginning of the 20th century at a difficult time for Ukraine was Alexander Oles, whose verses said the revival of the Ukrainian nation. Within the framework of the revolution of the year, the poet’s poetry became banners for conscious youth, who sought to achieve the independence of their native country.

The life feat of the writer can be described by several indicative moments: even during his lifetime, Olesya was called the king of Ukrainian lyrics, and poetic collections were considered one of the most valuable gifts. Collections of his works at the beginning of the 20th century were mandatory elements in the houses of intellectuals; The poetry of Kandiba was the cult for the young generation of Ukrainians.

With his poems on his lips, the patriots began the struggle for freedom, then the poet’s works became a real symbol of the Ukrainian national revival throughout the country. His call to a bold struggle gave a powerful impulse to the desire for independence of Ukraine; As a person of a thin mental structure before the revolution, Oles very well understood that his people, with all its amazing qualities, are in the shackles.

The poet joined the Social Democratic Party and was engaged in the promotion of the upcoming revival of Ukrainian self-awareness; One of the first Ukrainian writers reveals Oles the essence of the Stalinist repressions, within which thinking Ukrainians are destroyed by whole families. He depicted tragic events for the nation in the plot of the drama "The Earth promised", being in exile; The poet’s performances invariably collected full halls of the listeners.

After one of the creative evenings, the audience as a sign of gratitude carried Olesya from the hall in her arms. His poetry, bright, performed by melody helped the nation to preserve itself. For Ukraine, Kandib was one of the prophets subtly feeling her country, her experiences, pain and the smallest intonations. Reading the verses of Olesya, contemporaries are unlikely to be able to believe that they were written many years before the events of the revolution of dignity.

He wrote about the revival of the country, and the surprising restoration of the army’s potential and even the notorious European “concern” foresaw. You can guess that the poet wrote about the failed attempt to create Ukrainian statehood in the form of the UNR. In the activities of the government of this formation, the writer took an active part, even as a cultural attache, he left with a diplomatic mission to Austria.

At the exit, Kandib did not assume that he was no longer destined to return to his homeland. Olesya's work was at the junction of two eras. His lyrics remains relevant many years after writing works. Literary critics claim that the poetics of Olesya on 3 main principles are built - though, will, beauty. The poet used the power of truth for the good of the people - in satirical works he paid attention to the negative features of the character of Ukrainians.

With reproach, Oles spoke in satirical works that his people are blind, has a short memory. In poetry, one can often meet the desire for the will for the whole people. Regarding beauty, the writer was sure that she was impossible without love. The merits of Olesya, without any doubt, are difficult to overestimate. Nevertheless, the fact that Ukrainians know very little about an amazing person is also obvious.

The main feeling, which passes through the lyrics of Olesya in the period after leaving Ukraine, is longing for the homeland. The end of life the writer lived with the stigma of the traitor, since he was not able to return to Ukraine. For a long time, the writer lived in separation from his family, the wife and son could not leave the controlled by the Bolsheviks of Ukraine. At the end of his life, he was suffered by one of the largest human tragedies - he survived his own son, Oleg Olzhich.

Interesting about Alexander Oles. Father Ivan Fedorovich led the fishing in Astrakhan, where he drowned when his son was 11 years old.

At first, the family of the deceased spouse helped her mother, but soon she was forced to leave for the regional center, where she worked to give three children a good education. The mother of the writer said that after the death of her wife, she remained with 3 children and 3 chervonets; It was mother who gave Kandib primary education. At the age of 4, the boy already knew how to read, his mother taught her son to love Ukrainian literature.

In childhood, the future poet knew by heart almost the entire Kobzar Shevchenko; The sisters Olesya wrote in memoirs that it was often possible to see how little Sasha walked around the yard and sang something.When asked about what kind of song he hums, the boy replied that no one knew the song except him; Oles recalled the school in autobiography as a real place of torture.

Nevertheless, in school time he was actively engaged in the study of foreign languages ​​- he taught Indian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish and other languages, including the dead; He could not finish training at the Kiev Political Institute due to lack of money, received the education of a veterinarian, he worked in this specialty for many years. For more than a dozen years, the poet worked as a veterinarian on a slaughterhouse in Kharkov on Boynitskaya Street the current curls; The writer’s literary debut took place in his youth, his poem was published in the Bagatta almanac in the year; The poet loved to appear to strangers to introduce himself to the phrase "not cancer, not fish, Oles Kandiba"; In his student years, he visited the opening ceremony of the monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky in Poltava for the year, which gathered the entire Ukrainian intelligentsia and became the manifestation of the Ukrainian liberation idea.

The ban on the use of the Ukrainian language in the event was a demonstration of hostility from the tsarist regime for intellectuals. After this event, the poet wrote all the works exclusively in Ukrainian; In Slavyansk, where the poet worked as a statist, in the year he met Vera Antonovna Svadkovskaya, who studied with the poet’s sister in women's courses in St.

Petersburg. For 3 years, a girl who was madly liked by the poet did not dare to marry him, because she realized that life with a talented person requires selflessness. Ultimately, Vera Antonovna became a true friend, and a reviewer, and a real angel for a writer. When Oles lived in exile, he changed his wife, in Prague Maria Fabianova also became the mother of the poet’s son.

The wife managed to forgive, because she understood that the creative person, what a writer is, needed fresh emotions. It was planned that the writer will control the printing process and slightly improve the shaken health, but from Budapest he goes to Vienna, Berlin, then to Prague, where he dies after many years; After the exit Olesya abroad, the family reunited only in the year in Berlin; For some time he worked at the Embassy of the UPR in Austria.

In Vienna, the process of purchasing medications and tools for the main military veterinary management of the UPR; In Prague, Oles was one of the initiators of the opening of the Ukrainian club, directly took part in the basis of the Ukrainian Free University, and assisted in financing; Being abroad, he collected suitcases several times in an effort to return to Ukraine. Each time, the news came from the native land.

The mass destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia by the Soviet authorities was the best proof that in their homeland the bloody tyrant does not allow smart people to live; The Ukrainian public Kandiba is perceived mainly, as a poet, the author of a number of famous poems. Nevertheless, the creative heritage of Olesya is much richer than it seems at first glance.

In addition to rhymed works, he wrote prose, dramas, fairy tales, feuilletons, journalism and translated the works of foreign authors into his native language; A lot of scientific works have been written about the writer, but many pages of biography and creativity remain unknown. After many years in the archives of Prague, they find poems written by Olesem; On June 10, Oleg Olzhich, son of Olesya, dies from the torment of the Nazis in the concentration camp by Zakenhausen.

After the news received from the father, the liver disease exacerbates, 6 weeks after the death of his son, on July 22, doctors state the death of the writer. Biography of Alexander Olesya. Written after leaving Ukraine mainly contains the mood of longing for the native land. Also during this period, Olesem wrote a number of works on the pages of Ukrainian history; He died in Prague, the writer was buried in the Olshansky cemetery.

The perpetuating of the memory of Alexander Olesya.