Hnat Khotkevych

Died in 1938

Hnat Khotkevych was born on 31 December 1877 in Kharkiv, the son of a father of Polish origin and a Ukrainian peasant woman. A graduate of the Kharkiv Technological Institute in 1900, he was a railway engineer. A leader of the Liubotyn railway workers' strike in 1905, he had to go into exile in Austrian Galicia, where he founded in 1910 a theatre of Hutsul peasants. A bandura player, he wrote a method for this instrument, which he later taught at the Kharkiv Institute of Music and Drama. Arrested in 1938, he was shot in Kharkiv on 8 October of the same year.

In the catalogue 1

NovelКамінна душаHnat Khotkevych · 1911not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain