Yevhen Chykalenko

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Biography Yevhen Chykalenko was born in the village of Pereshory in Kherson Governorate (modern-day Odesa Oblast). He studied at a gymnasium in Yelisavetgrad, where his classmates were prominent Ukrainian cultural figures: Panas Tobilevych (later known by the pseudonym Saksahansky) and Oleksandr Tarkovskyi, grandfather of Andrey Tarkovsky. Chykalenko's sister Nadiya married Ukrainian playwright Ivan Karpenko-Karyi. Chykalenko received higher education at the department of natural sciences at Kharkiv University, where he took part in the Ukrainian student hromada inspired by the ideas of Mykhailo Drahomanov. In 1884 he was arrested for his activities in the student movement and exiled back to his native village of Pereshory. There he managed his family's manor, and in 1897 published a book of practical advice on agricultural topics. From 1894 Chykalenko lived in Odesa, and in 1900 moved to Kyiv. After selling his manor in Pereshory, he bought a land plot in the village of Kononivka not far from the Ukrainian capital, and organized there a summer residence which was visited by several Ukrainian authors, most notably his close friend Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. Starting from 1900, Chykalenko was an active member of "Old Hromada" and the General Non-Partisan Democratic Organization. In 1904 he entered the Ukrainian Democratic…Citește mai mult

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Chykalenko's memoirs (published in 1925-1926), as well as his diary (1931) represent an important source on the history of the Ukrainian national movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pushkin Street in Kyiv was renamed in honour of Yevhen Chykalenko.

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Yevhen Kharlampiyovych Chykalenko (Ukrainian: Євге́н Харла́мпійович Чикале́нко; 21 December 1861 – 20 June 1929) was a Ukrainian public figure, philanthropist, landowner, agronome, publisher and patron of the arts. He was one of the initiators of the convocation of the Central Rada in 1917. He played an important role in the Ukrainian national revival in the early 20th century by co-funding the only Ukrainian-language newspapers in the Russian Empire.

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Chykalenko was a patron of various causes, donating his own money for publication of numerous books, such as Umanets-Komarov's Russian-Ukrainian Dictionary (Lviv, 1893–1898). He helped the Kievskaia starina magazine by giving an award of 1,000 rubles for the best written history of Ukraine and paying royalties for Ukrainian works of literature. Chykalenko organized the Mordovets Foundation at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv to help Ukrainian writers, financed the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party's "Selyanyn" weekly publication, and became the main founder of the "Academic House" in Lviv (25,000 rubles), encouraging young people from Dnieper Ukraine to go to the city for studies. After the Russian Revolution of 1905 Chykalenko founded the first Ukrainian-language periodicals in Dnieper Ukraine: Hromadska Dumka (1906) and Rada (1906-1914), whose publication was supported by Vasyl Symyrenko and Leonid Zhebuniov. Chykalenko financed the Kyiv Society of Aid to Science, Literature and Arts, which provided material support to Ukrainian cultural figures including Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Lesia Ukrainka, Olha Kobylianska, Oleksandr Oles, Mykola Lysenko and others. With the support of Chykalenko and under the informal leadership of Volodymyr Naumenko, the Kyiv hromada managed to publish the Dictionary of Ukrainian Language by Borys Hrinchenko. The organization also took part in…Citește mai mult