Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer.
Biography
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on to the family of a peasant priest in
Stebliv (
Cherkasy Oblast
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in central Ukraine). In 1847 he entered the
Bohuslav
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It is ...
religious school. Upon graduation from the
Kiev Theological Academy in 1865, he taught
Russian language
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, history, and geography in the Poltava Theological Seminary (1865–1866) and, later, in different gymnasiums in
Kalisz
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,
Siedlce
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The city is situated between two small rivers, the Muchawka and the Helenka, and lies along the European route E30, around east of Warsaw. It is ...
(1867–1872), and
Chișinău
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(1873–1874).
[Mykhailo Starytsky. In 1961 the play was adapted as a popular comedy movie of the same name.
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky died of hunger and illness on 2 April, 1918 in one of almshouses of Kyiv during the First World War.]
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Bibliography
* 'Zhyttiepys' Ivana Levyts'koho (Nechuia), napysana nym samym,' S'vit, no. 7 (1888)
* Iefremov, Serhii. Nechui-Levyts'kyi (Kyiv 1924)
* Mezhenko, Iurii. 'Ivan Semenovych Nechui-Levyts'kyi,' Tvory, 1 (Kyiv 1926)
* Bilets'kyi, Oleksander. 'Ivan Semenovych Levyts'kyi (Nechui),' Tvory v chotyr'okh tomakh, 1 (Kyiv 1956)
* Pokhodzilo, M. Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi (Kyiv 1960)
* Krutikova, N. Tvorchist' I.S. Nechuia-Levyts'koho (Kyiv 1961)
* Ivanchenko, R. Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi: Narys zhyttia i tvorchosti (Kyiv 1980)
* Tarnawsky Maxim, ''The all-encompassing eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's realist prose'', Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 384 pp., (in English)
Screen adaptations
* ''Kaidash's Family'' (1993–1996) — a 2-episode mini-series directed by Volodymyr Horodko for the Kozak Consortium.
* '' To Catch the Kaidash'' (2020) — a 12-episode television series based on ''Kaidash's Family'' novel, adapted by Natalka Vorozhbyt and produced by STB channel.
References
External links
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Vol. 3. 1993
* Krys Svitlana
'Book review: the all-encompassing eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's realist prose, by Maxim Tarnawsky…'
''Canadian Slavonic Papers'', 30 Jun 2016 (online publication date)
1838 births
1918 deaths
Dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire
Ukrainian dramatists and playwrights
Hromada (society) members
Ukrainian male writers
Burials at Baikove Cemetery
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