Vasyl Stefanyk

Vasyl Stefanyk was born on 14 May 1871 in Rusiv, in Austrian Galicia, into a family of well-off peasants. Expelled from the gymnasium of Kolomyia for a clandestine circle of pupils, he finished his schooling at Drohobych, then entered medicine at Kraków in 1892, which he left without a degree. After 1901, he stopped writing for some fifteen years. A deputy in the Vienna parliament from 1908 to 1918, he went in January 1919 to Kyiv with the delegation sent to seal the union of the two Ukrainian republics. He refused the pension offered to him by Soviet Ukraine, as a sign of protest, and died in Rusiv on 7 December 1936.

In the catalogue 1

• NarrativeThe Stone CrossКамінний хрестVasyl Stefanyk · 1900LiteraturePublic domain