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Vasyl Pachovsky

Died in 1942

Vasyl Pachovsky was born on 12 January 1878 in Julychi, near Zolochiv, in Galicia, the son of the village priest. He studied at the universities of Lviv and Vienna, graduating with a doctorate in art history, and was one of the founders of the modernist group Young Muse. A secondary-school teacher, he taught in Galicia and then, from 1920 to 1929, in Transcarpathia, at Uzhhorod and Berehove. Back in Peremyshl, he was dismissed in 1933 after a speech given at a celebration in honour of Shevchenko, and settled in Lviv, where he died on 5 April 1942, Easter Day.

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