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Olha Petrivna Kosach (29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka (Ukrainian: Олена Пчілка), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov and the mother of Lesya Ukrainka, Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk, Mykhailo Kosach, Oksana Kosach-Shymanovska, Mykola Kosach, Izydora Kosach-Borysova and Yuriy Kosach.[1]

Olha Kosach Ольга Косач
Born	(1849-06-29)June 29, 1849 Hadiach, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	October 4, 1930(1930-10-04) (aged 81) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Pen name	Olena Pchilka
Occupation	writer, civil activist
Language	Ukrainian
Citizenship	Russian Empire Soviet Union
Alma mater	Exemplary Boarding School of Noble Maidens (Kyiv)
Spouse	Petro Kosach
Children	Lesia Ukrainka

Early years

Pchilka was born in Hadiach, into the family of a local landowner Petro Drahomanov. She received a basic education at home and completed her education at the Exemplary Boarding School of Noble Maidens (Kyiv) in 1866. She married Petro Kosach sometime in 1868 and soon moved to Novohrad-Volynsky, where he worked. Her daughters Lesya Ukrainka was born there. Pchilka is, perhaps, the most well-known Ukrainian female poet. She died in Kyiv, aged 81.[2]

Pchilka recorded folk songs, folk customs, and rites, and collected folk embroidery in Volhynia, later publishing her research.

She published numerous works, and was active in the feminist movement, particularly in cooperation with Nataliya Kobrynska with whom she published an almanac in Lemberg "Pershyi Vinok".

Interpreter

Pchilka also was an interpreter and translated into the Ukrainian language many famous works, such as those of Nikolai Gogol, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin and others.

Works

Among the most prominent of her works are the following:

• "Tovaryshky" (Comradesses, 1887),
• "Svitlo dobra i lyubovi"(The light of goodness and love, 1888),
• "Soloviovyi spiv" (Nightingale singing, 1889),
• "Za pravdoyu" (For a truth, 1889),
• "Artyshok" (Artichoke, 1907),
• "Pivtora oseledsya" (One and a half herring, 1908),
• a play "Suzhena ne ohuzhena" (1881),
• a play "Svitova rich" (World thing, 1908) and others.

References

External links

• Works by or about Olena Pchilka in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Olena Pchilka at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine

На других языках

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[de] Olena Ptschilka

Olena Ptschilka (ukrainisch Олена Пчілка; * 17. Junijul. / 29. Juni 1849greg. in Hadjatsch, Gouvernement Poltawa, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 4. Oktober 1930 in Kiew, Ukrainische SSR) war eine ukrainische Schriftstellerin, Journalistin und Ethnologin.

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- [en] Olena Pchilka

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[ru] Косач, Ольга Петровна

О́льга Петро́вна Ко́сач (урождённая Драгома́нова; псевдоним — Оле́на (Елена) Пчи́лка, укр. Олена Пчілка; 5 (17) июля 1849, Гадяч, Полтавская губерния, Российская империя[1] — 4 октября 1930, Киев, СССР) — украинская писательница, публицистка, этнограф, член-корреспондент Всеукраинской Академии наук (с 1925), сестра Михаила Драгоманова, мать Леси Украинки, Ольги Косач-Кривинюк, Исидоры Косач-Борисовой и Михаила Косача.

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