Mykhailo Ivchenko

Mykhailo Ivchenko was born on 9 August 1890 near Nykonivka, in the Poltava region. After leaving a teacher training college in 1906, he was refused the certificate of loyalty that would have allowed him to teach and joined the Poltava zemstvo, where he ran a statistics office. A member of the Muzahet and Aspys groups, he wrote prefaces for editions of classics and corresponded with Tagore, whom he translated. Arrested in September 1929 in the case of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine, released in April 1930 with a suspended sentence, he left Ukraine in 1934 and died in Vladikavkaz on 16 October 1939.

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• NovelРобітні силиMykhailo Ivchenko · 1929not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain