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[WEST UKRAINIAN VICTIM OF STALINIST TERROR] Maty. Drama v 4-okh diiakh [i.e. Mother. A Play in 4 Acts]

Nykolyshyn, D.

Item #2798

Kolomyia: Nakladom “Zagalnoi knyhozbirni”: Z drukarni Vilhelma Bravnera, 1929. 104 pp. 17,5x11 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine and cover edges restored, some light stains, otherwise very good.

The cover design was created by Stepan Havryliuk.

The play was written by Dmytro Nykolyshyn (Nykołyszyn; 1884 –1950), a Ukrainian writer, literary scholar, and educator. He was born in the village of Ivankiv, then part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Today, this village is located in the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine.

After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy at Chernivtsi University in 1910, Nykolyshyn began his teaching career. He worked as an educator in Vyzhnytsia and Kolomyia. From July 1941, he served as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Volia Pokuttia in Kolomyia. He also worked as a referent for cultural and educational affairs at the Ukrainian District Committee in Lviv.

In 1944, as the front approached, Nykolyshyn moved to Germany. However, he made the decision to return to Lviv in 1946. In 1946–1950, he taught English and German at higher education institutions: the Lviv Medical Institute and the Lviv Pedagogical Institute. In 1950, Nykolyshyn was arrested by the Soviet authorities. He was convicted in a political trial and sentenced to 25 years in the Gulag. He didn’t survive his imprisonment, dying in a Lviv prison on December 14, 1950.

The back cover features the publisher’s ad that lists 24 editions of the series “Zahalna knyhozbirnia” edited by D. Nykołyszyn. He was the editor but also a translator of foreign works of the series.

Worldcat shows copies located in Harvard and Illinois Universities.

Price: $950.00