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Mykola Khvylovy

Died in 1933

Mykola Khvylovy, whose real name was Fitiliov, was born on 13 December 1893 in Trostianets, in the Kharkiv region. He joined the Communist Party in 1919, settled in Kharkiv in 1921, led the Vaplite group and defended a culture turned towards Europe rather than towards Moscow, which earned him condemnation by Stalin. In the spring of 1933, he saw the famine in the Poltava region. On 13 May 1933, after the arrest of his friend Mykhailo Yalovy, he gathered a few writers at his home, played a stringed instrument, recited a poem, went into his study and shot himself, aged thirty-nine.

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