Mariya Varpholomiivna Livytska (''

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'': Tkachenko; April 9, 1879 – August 16, 1971) was a

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writer, memoirist, and public figure. She was an Activist in the Ukrainian women's movement and headed the Union of Ukrainian Women in Poland. She was married to the president of the

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in the exile of

Andriy Livytskyi Andriy Mykolaiovych Livytskyi ( uk, Андрій Миколайович Лівицький; April 9, 1879, in Lyplyavo, the Russian Empire (now Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine) – January 17, 1954) was a Ukrainian politician, diplomat, statesman, and la ...

. In 1897 she graduated from the Fundukleivka Women's Gymnasium in

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and worked as a private teacher in and 1898–1899), while engaging in public and party activities. She became a member of the

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, the

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, and became acquainted with its activists

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. She was a member of the Kyiv student community, which included

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, Olexander Scoropis-Yoltukhivsky,

, Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska, Maria Hrinchenko. Maria Livytska took an active part in the activities of the Ukrainian Women's Society in the revolutionary events of 1905–07. In 1920 she moved to

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, where she headed the Union of Ukrainian emigrants in Poland. At the end of the Second World War, she moved to Germany and lived in

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. In 1957 she moved to the United States. She died on August 16, 1971, in

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Publications

* "On the edge of two epochs" (1972).Лівицька М. На грані двох епох. — Нью-Йорк, 1972. — 355 с.
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Livytska, Mariya 1879 births 1971 deaths People from Zhmerynka People from Vinnitsky Uyezd First Ladies of Ukraine 19th-century educators Ukrainian translators Ukrainian writers Polish emigrants to the United States Burials at Ukrainian Orthodox Church Cemetery, South Bound Brook