Lesya Ukrainka
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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.
Lesya Ukrainka in 1886
Larysa Kosach in her teenage years
A house in Lutsk, where Lesya Ukrainka and her family lived in 1890-1891
A group of Ukrainian writers gathered in Poltava to inaugurate a monument to Ivan Kotliarevsky. From left: Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Vasyl Stefanyk, Olena Pchilka, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Hnat Khotkevych, Volodymyr Samiilenko
Olena Pchilka
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Olha Petrivna Kosach, better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka, was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov and the mo
Lesya Ukrainka
…in Ukraine. She was the second child of Ukrainian writer and publisher Olha Drahomanova-Kosach, of Greek descent, better known under her pen-name Olena Pchilka. Ukrainka's father was Petro Kosach (from the Kosach family, who in turn are believed to be related to the Kosača noble family), head of the district…
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Olena Pchilka with Lesya Ukrainka, 1898