Valerian Pidmohylny

Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for his novel The City. Like a number of Ukrainian writers, he flourished in the 1920s Ukraine, but in the 1930s, he was constrained and eventually arrested by the NKVD on fabricated charges of terrorism. He was executed in Sandarmokh in 1937, during the Great Purge. He is one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance.