Olha Kobylianska
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Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska was a Ukrainian modernist writer, nationalist and feminist. A daughter of a Ukrainian nobleman and a Polonized German mother, Kobylianska was mainly self-educated, receivin
Kobylianska in 1899
The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, Lviv, 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska, Natalia Kobrynska, Olha Kobylianska, Sylvester Lepky, Andriy Chaykovsky, Kost Pankivsky. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Osyp Makovei, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, Oleksander Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky. Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych,
1963 Soviet postal stamp depicting Olha Kobylianska
2013 Ukrainian postal stamp depicting Olha Kobylianska
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.
Olha Kobylianska
…female characters who asserted their right for sexual fulfillment. However, the two later broke up and in 1901 Kobylians'ka met with the female writer Lesia Ukrainka (1871–1913). The meeting produced an intensely passionate union that was realised through correspondence as illness and circumstances prevented them…
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