Lesya Ukrainka

Larysa Kosach, known as Lesya Ukrainka, was born on 25 February 1871 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, in Volhynia, the daughter of the woman of letters Olena Pchilka and the niece of Mykhailo Drahomanov, who was her master. Taught by tutors, she read many languages and translated Gogol, Mickiewicz, Heine, Hugo and Homer. Afflicted with tuberculosis from childhood, she spent a large part of her life seeking treatment away from home, in Egypt and the Caucasus. Married in 1907 to the musicologist Klyment Kvitka, she died at Surami, in Georgia, on 1 August 1913, aged forty-two.

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• TheatreThe Forest SongЛісова пісняLesya Ukrainka · 1918LiteraturePublic domain