Borys Antonenko-Davydovych ( uk, Борис Антоненко-Давидович), born Borys Davydov ( uk, Борис Давидов) was a

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

writer, translator and linguist. During the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

he was sentenced to the death penalty, which was later replaced with ten years jail in a gulag. Antonenko-Davydovych wrote a number of prose books; he had been translating from German and Russian. One of the most famous of his works is "How do we speak" ''(Як ми говоримо)'' in which typical mistakes of Ukrainian speakers made under the influence of Russian language are considered.

Sources

* Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: Смолоскип, 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Antonenko-Davydovych, Borys 1899 births 1984 deaths People from Sumy Oblast People from Romensky Uyezd Ukrainian writers Soviet writers Prisoners sentenced to death by the Soviet Union Bamlag detainees Ukrainian people of the Ukrainian–Soviet War Male touring cyclists Ukrainian victims of human rights abuses