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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrivna and the family name is Kosach.
1 August [O.S. 19 July] 1913 (aged 42) Surami, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Occupation
Poet and writer, playwright
Period
1884–1913
Relatives
Olena Pchilka (mother)
Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk (sister)
Mykhailo Drahomanov (uncle)
Yulia Krukovskaya (great-aunt)
Lesya Ukrainka[1] (Ukrainian: Леся Українка, romanized: Lesia Ukrainka, pronounced[ˈlɛsʲɐʊkrɐˈjinkɐ]; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian: Лариса Петрівна Косач; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1871 – 1 August [O.S. 19 July] 1913) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist.[2]
Among her best-known works are the collections of poems On the Wings of Songs (1893), Thoughts and Dreams (1899), Echos (1902), the epic poem Ancient Fairy Tale (1893), One Word (1903), plays Princess (1913), Cassandra (1903—1907), In the Catacombs (1905), and Forest Song (1911).
^Note: "Ukrainka" literally means "Ukrainian woman" in Ukrainian
^Krys Svitlana, A Comparative Feminist Reading of Lesia Ukrainka’s and Henrik Ibsen’s Dramas. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 34.4 (December 2007 [September 2008]): 389–409
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