Olha Kobylianska
Ukrainian writer and feminist (1863-1942) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 78
Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska was a Ukrainian and Soviet modernist writer, nationalist and feminist. Kobylianska was a daughter of a Ukrainian nobleman and a Polonized German mother. Kobylianska was mainly self-educated, receiving only four years of formal schooling in the German language.
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The board and members of the Shevchenko Scientific Society celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, Lviv, 31 October 1898: Sitting in the first row: Mykhaylo Pavlyk, Yevheniya Yaroshynska, Natalia Kobrynska, Olha Kobylianska, Sylvester Lepky, Andriy Chaykovsky, Kost Pankivsky. In the second row: Ivan Kopach, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Osyp Makovei, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Kolessa, Bohdan Lepky. Standing in the third row: Ivan Petrushevych, Filaret Kolessa, Yossyp Kyshakevych, Ivan Trush, Denys Lukianovych, Mykola Ivasyuk.
1963 Soviet postal stamp depicting Olha Kobylianska
2013 Ukrainian postal stamp depicting Olha KobylianskaAbout this person
She wrote her first works in German, beginning in 1880. Besides her fluency in German, she learned to speak in both the Ukrainian and Polish languages. In 1898, she published a pioneering treatment of same-sex love, based partly on her own lesbian experiences.
