Oleksa Slisarenko

Oleksa Slisarenko was born on 28 March 1891 near Vovchansk, in the Kharkiv region, the son of a saddler named Snissar; a hard-of-hearing priest wrote Slissar on the baptismal record. A pupil at the Kharkiv school of agriculture, he published his first verses in a clandestine pupils' magazine. A Symbolist in Kyiv, then a Futurist, and a member of Hart and Vaplite, he directed the Knyhospilka publishing house in Kharkiv. Arrested in April 1934 and sentenced in 1935 to ten years in a camp on the Solovki Islands, he was shot at Sandarmokh on 3 November 1937.

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• NovelЧорний АнгелOleksa Slisarenko · 1929not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain