Hryhoriy Kosynka
Hryhorii Mykhailovych Kosynka ( uk, Григорій Михайлович Косинка, real name Hryhorii Strilets, uk, Григорій Стрілець, 29 November 1899 – 15 December 1934) was a Ukrainian writer and a representative of the Executed Renaissance. He wrote in Ukrainian. Hryhorii Strelets was born in 1899 in the Village#Ukraine, selo of Shcherbanivka, currently in Obukhiv Raion of Kyiv Oblast, in a peasant family. He completed a two-year school, and moved to Kiev in 1914. There, taking various jobs to get subsistence, he graduated from a six-year school. Eventually, Strelets started writing short prose. He first used the pseudonym Hryhorii Kosynka in 1919. During the Russian Civil War, he first fought with the Danylo Terpylo, Green Ataman and then with the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Both were fighting against the Bolsheviks, and Kosynka was even briefly jailed when the Bolsheviks won, but then released. Between 1919 and 1922 Kosynka studied at ...
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