Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) ( uk, Олександр Іванович Олесь) (1878–1944) was a prominent

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writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist,

Oleh Olzhych Oleh Olzhych (July 8, 1907, Zhytomyr, Russian Empire - 9 June 1944, Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Germany) was a Ukrainian poet and political activist. Born as Oleh Kandyba, he was forced to emigrate from Ukraine in 1923 due to occupation by t ...

, who perished in the

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labor camps in 1944.

Life

He was born in 1878 in the

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(small village) of Kandyba (now the village of Kandybyne,

Bilopillia raion Bilopillia Raion ( uk, Білопільський район) was a raion in Sumy Oblast in Central Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion was the town of Bilopillia Bilopillia (, ; , translit.: ''Belopol`ye'') is a city and the ad ...

, Sumy Oblast) in Kharkiv province. He studied at the Kharkiv agriculture school, later at the Kharkiv veterinary institute. He is one of representatives of the

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family of Kandyba. In 1907 he married Vira Svadkovska. They had a son -

, who also became a famous Ukrainian poet.

Collections

Among his poetic collections are "Z zhurboyu radist obnymalas" — With Sadness a Joy was Embracing, "Komu povim pechal moyu" — To Whom I'll Tell About My Woes, and others (nine poetry books altogether). Oleksandr Oles also created several dramatic works.

Death

Oles died in emigration in

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in 1944. He was buried there until early January 2016 when his and his wife remains were exhumed and replaced by the body of Volodymyr Mykhailyshyn, who was the man that had been paying for the family grave.Remains Of Ukrainian Poet In Limbo After Being Exhumed

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(3 January 2017) On 29 January 2017 Oles and his wife Vira were reburied, paid for by the Ukrainian government, in (Ukraine's capital)

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, in the Lukyanivske cemetery.In Kiev Oleksandr Oles reburied

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(29 January 2017)

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and his wife

Maryna Poroshenko Maryna Anatoliivna Poroshenko ( uk, Мари́на Анато́ліївна Пороше́нко, née Perevedentseva; born 1 February 1962) is a Ukrainian cardiologist who was the First Lady of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. She is married to former ...

took part in this ceremony.

Example of his work

:''The sky has embraced the sea,'' :''The sea has spilled into the sky…'' :''The whole world they have forgotten'' :''And have sunk in the fogs of the sky'' :''I have dreamed of being with you,'' :''Our souls are close mates.'' :''You are like the blue sky'' :''And your thoughts are like wandering clouds''.

References

External links

Poetry of Oleksandr Oles, in Ukrainian
{{DEFAULTSORT:Oles, Oleksandr 1878 births 1944 deaths People from Sumy Oblast People from Sumskoy Uyezd Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire 20th-century Ukrainian poets Ukrainian male poets Ukrainian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century male writers