Hryhoriy Kosynka

Hryhoriy Kosynka, whose real name was Strilets, was born on 29 November 1899 in Shcherbanivka, near Kyiv, into a family of poor peasants. He came to Kyiv in 1914 and lived on odd jobs while finishing school. In 1919 he fought the Bolsheviks with the insurgent division of the ataman Zeleny, then in the army of the People's Republic, and was briefly imprisoned. He then studied at the Kyiv Institute of Public Education and belonged to the groups Hrono, Aspys and Lanka, which became the Workshop of the Revolutionary Word. Arrested in 1934, he was shot in Kyiv in December of the same year.

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• NarrativeIn the GrainfieldsВ житахHryhoriy Kosynka · 1926LiteraturePublic domain