Oleksa Mykolaiovych Volianskyi ( uk, Олекса Миколайович Волянський; 7 October 1862 – 2 March 1947) was a Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist. Full member of the

Shevchenko Scientific Society The Shevchenko Scientific Society () is a Ukrainian scientific society devoted to the promotion of scholarly research and publication that was founded in 1873. Unlike the government-funded National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the society ...

(1905).

Biography

Oleksa Volianskyi was born on 7 October 1862, in

Zvyniach Zvyniach ( uk, Звиняч) is a village in Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Chortkiv Raion, Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada. History The first written mention dates back to 1549. Polish archaeologist Bohdan Janusz, based on bronze items found in the vi ...

, now Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada in the

Chortkiv Raion Chortkiv Raion ( uk, Чортківський район) is a raion in Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Chortkiv. It has a population of On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukrain ...

of the

Ternopil Oblast Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an obl ...

, to at. Mykola Volianskyi and Pavlina of Borovskyi's family. Graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. He served in parishes in the town of Tovste (1887–1889, employee, now a village in Chortkiv Raion),

Siret Siret (; german: Sereth; hu, Szeretvásár; uk, Серет, Seret; yi, סערעט, Seret) is a town, municipality and former Latin bishopric in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Siret is ...

(1889–1893, administrator, now Romania), Kryvorivnia (1893–1923, now Verkhovyna Raion), and Sokolivka (since 1923, now Kosiv Raion).Волянський Олекса Миколайович
П. І. Арсенич, Енциклопедія Сучасної України �лектронний ресурс Редкол.: І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк �а ін.; НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2006. Head of the

Prosvita Prosvita ( uk, просвіта, 'enlightenment') is a society for preserving and developing Ukrainian culture and education among population that created in the nineteenth century in the Austria-Hungary Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. By the ...

reading society in Kryvorivnia. It is known that at. Oleksa Volianskyi helped

Volodymyr Shukhevych Volodymyr Osypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Володи́мир О́сипович Шухе́вич, pseudonym, V. Sh. Shumylo, uk, Шумило, В.Ш.) (15 March 1849, Tyshkivtsi village, Horodenkyi district, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk ...

collect materials for a book about the

Hutsul The Hutsuls (sometimes the spelling variant: Gutsuls; uk, Гуцули, translit=Hutsuly; pl, Huculi, Hucułowie; ro, huțuli) are an ethnic group spanning parts of western Ukraine and Romania (i.e. parts of Bukovina and Maramureș). They ...

region. He had a large library and archive, which were burned by Russian officers during

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. His home in Kryvorivnia was visited by

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (Ukrainian: Іван Якович Франко, pronounced ˈwɑn ˈjɑkowɪtʃ frɐnˈkɔ 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, ...

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka ( uk, Леся Українка ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, uk, Лариса Петрівна Косач; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active ...

Mykhailo Hrushevsky Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky ( uk, Михайло Сергійович Грушевський, Chełm, – Kislovodsk, 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figure ...

Volodymyr Hnatiuk , image = Hnatiuk Volodymyr.jpg , imagesize = , caption = Volodymyr Hnatiuk , pseudonym = , birth_name = , birth_date = , birth_place = Velesniv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary , death_date = , death_place = Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine ...

Hnat Khotkevych Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych ( uk, Гнат Мартинович Хоткевич, also ''Gnat Khotkevich'' or ''Hnat Khotkevych'', born December 31, 1877 – died October 8, 1938) was a Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musico ...

Vasyl Stefanyk Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk ( uk, Васи́ль Семе́нович Стефа́ник; May 14, 1871 – December 7, 1936) was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist. He was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1 ...

Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Коцюбинський), (September 17, 1864 – April 25, 1913) was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th centur ...

Olha Kobylianska Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska ( uk, Ольга Юліанівна Кобилянська; 27 November 1863 Gura Humorului, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary - 21 March 1942 Cernăuți, Cernăuți County, Romania) was a Ukrainian modernist writer and fe ...

, Antin Krushelnytsky,

Ivan Krypiakevych Ivan Krypiakevych ( uk, Іва́н Крип'яке́вич; 25 June 1886 – 21 April 1967) was a Ukrainian historian, academician, professor of Lviv University and director of the Institute of Social Sciences of Ukraine. He was a specialist on Ukr ...

Oleksandr Oles Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) ( uk, Олександр Іванович Олесь) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, ...

Marko Cheremshyna Marko Cheremshyna ( uk, Марко Черемшина) (other name: Ivan Semaniuk, Іван Семанюк), (born 13 June 1874 in Kobaky, Galicia; died 25 April 1927 in Kobaky) was a Ukrainian writer of Hutsul background. Biography Cheremsh ...

, Yevhen Tymchenko,

Ivan Trush Ivan Trush ( uk, Іван Труш, pronounced as ''Troosh'': 1869–1941) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian Impressionism, impressionist painter, a master of landscape and portraiture, an art critic, and active community patron of arts in Galicia (C ...

Andrey Sheptytsky Andrey Sheptytsky, OSBM (; uk, Митрополит Андрей Шептицький; 29 July 1865 – 1 November 1944) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. His tenure spann ...

Hryhoriy Khomyshyn Hryhoriy Khomyshyn (also ''Hryhorij Khomyshyn'', uk, Григорій Лукич Хомишин, pl, Grzegorz Chomyszyn) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and hieromartyr. Khomyshyn was born on 25 March 1867 in the village of Hadynkivtsi, ...

, and others. He corresponded with I. Franko, V. Hnatiuk, and M. Kotsiubynsky. He left memories of I. Franko, M. Kotsiubynsky and others. Letters to V. Hnatiuk are kept in the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine. Died on 2 March 1947 in Sokolivka, Kosiv Raion, where he was buried.

Family

In 1886, he married Mariia Burachynska, the daughter of a priest, at. Andrii Burachynskyi from Kryvorivnia. They had three children – Volodymyra, Roman, and Kekyliia.

Honoring the memory

Memorial plaques in honor of at. Oleksa Volianskyi were installed on the facades of churches in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka. On the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the birth of Oleksa Volianskyi: * 2012 was proclaimed the "Year of Oleksa Volianskyi" in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast; * At the initiative of the NGO Zelenyi Svit, a Carpathian yew tree was planted in honor of at. Volianskyi in Zvyniach, Chortkiv Raion, as well as linden trees in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Volianskyi, Oleksa 1862 births 1947 deaths Lviv Seminary alumni Ukrainian Eastern Catholic priests Ukrainian ethnographers Ukrainian educators Members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society Ivan Franko Andrey Sheptytsky