Olha Petrivna Kosach (née Drahomanova 29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka (Ukrainian: Олена Пчілка), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov and the mother of Lesya Ukrainka, Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk, Mykhailo Kosach, Oksana Kosach-Shymanovska, Mykola Kosach, Izydora Kosach-Borysova and Yuriy Kosach.
Olha Petrivna Kosach (née Drahomanova 29 June 1849 – 4 October 1930), better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka (Ukrainian: Олена Пчілка), was a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer, interpreter, and civil activist. She was the sister of Mykhailo Drahomanov and the mother of Lesya Ukrainka, Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk, Mykhailo Kosach, Oksana Kosach-Shymanovska, Mykola Kosach, Izydora Kosach-Borysova and Yuriy Kosach.
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Biography Pchilka was born in Hadiach, into the family of a local landowner, Petro Drahomanov. The family originated from a Greek dragoman who served in the chancellery of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. It had a long tradition of opposition activities: one of her uncles was exiled to Siberia due to his participation in the Decembrist movement, her father was fired from state service for his help to poor descendants of Cossack starshyna, and her brother Mykhailo had to emigrate after co-authoring a work of satire directed against the director of his gymnasium. Pchilka received a basic education at home and completed her studies at the Exemplary Boarding School of Noble Maidens (Kyiv) in 1866. During her time at the school Pchilka published her first story, which was written in German language. She married Petro Kosach sometime in 1868 and soon moved to Novohrad-Volynskyi, where he worked. Her daughter Lesya Ukrainka was born there. Encouraged by the lack of Ukrainian reading material for her children, Pchilka began her career by translating children's stroies, as well as poetry by Pushkin and Lermontov, into Ukrainian. She also recorded folk songs, folk customs, and rites, and collected traditional embroidery in Volhynia, later publishing her research…
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Works
Among the most prominent of her works are the following:
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"Tovaryshky" (Comradesses, 1887),
"Svitlo dobra i lyubovi" (The light of goodness and love, 1888),
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"Artyshok" (Artichoke, 1907),
"Pivtora oseledsya" (One and a half herring, 1908),
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a play "Suzhena ne ohuzhena" (1881),
a play "Svitova rich" (World thing, 1908) and others.
