Ivan Matviiovych Steshenko was a Ukrainian politician, literary scholar, poet, writer, translator and member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Steshenko's assassination was one of the first politi
Steshenko in the 1890s
Founders of the Ukrainian academy of arts, 1917: Sitting: Abram Manevich, Oleksandr Murashko, Fedir Krychevsky, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Steshenko, Mykola Burachek. Standing: Heorhiy Narbut, Vasyl Krychevsky, Mykhailo Boychuk.
Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska was a Ukrainian writer, translator, literary and theater critic and politician. Accused of anti-Soviet activity, Starytska-Cherniakhivska died while being transported
Ivan Steshenko
…to be executed is unknown." Suspensions of Bolshevik involvement was later confirmed in 1941 when Steshenko's widow Oksana Steshenko and her sister Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska were arrested by the NKVD. The arrest warrant for Oksana Steshenko noted that Steshenko had been assassinated by members of the Red Army. In 1897…