Kateryna Andriivna Rubchakova (,

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Kossak; 29 April 1881 – 22 November 1919) was a Ukrainian actress of universal transformation and a singer in lyrical

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of the Galician Theater.Медведик П., Миськів В., Іванко Н. (укладачі). Театральна Тернопільщина. Бібліографічний покажчик, Тернопіль: Підручники і посібники, 2001, s. 62-63, ISBN 966-562-435-0.

Biography

Kateryna Rubchakova was born on 29 April 1881 in

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to a deacon and amateur conductor of the city choir, Andrii Kossak (1850–1917), the son of a blacksmith and weaver Ivan Kossak from the village of Bila near Chortkiv, and his wife Rozaliia Hryhorivna Fedorovych (1856–1923), the daughter of peasants from Vyhnanka. Studied at people's school in Chortkiv, where she first performed in the choir.Герасимова Г. П. Рубчакова Катерина Андріївна // Енциклопедія історії України : у 10 т. / редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. ; Інститут історії України НАН України, К. : Наукова думка, 2012, Т. 9 : Прил — С, s. 346, ISBN 978-966-00-1290-5.Рубчакова Катерина Андріївна /
Театральна Тернопільщина. Бібліографічний покажчик
/ Ук- лад.: П. К. Медведик, В. Я. Миськів, Н. К. Іванко, Тернопіль: Підручники і посібники, 2001, s. 55–58. She began her stage career under the direction of Stepan Yanovych and Kost' Pidvysotskyi. Study at the music and drama studio at the theater under the direction of Yosyp Stadnyk, and singing – with S. Kozlovska (1901–1902). In 1886–1914, she worked at the

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in Lviv (1917–1918 – director), and in 1916–1918 she headed the troupe of the Streletskyi Theater. In 1918–1919 she played at the Ukrainian Theater of Mykola Bentsal in

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; from 1919 she worked at the Chernivtsi Ukrainian Drama Theater and the New Lviv Theater, which toured the cities of Galicia,

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, and

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(Ternopil, Chortkiv,

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, and others). She performed on stage with Amvrosii Buchma,

Maria Zankovetska Maria Kostiantynivna Adasovska (; 4 August 1854 – 4 October 1934), better known under her pseudonym Maria Zankovetska () was a Ukrainian theater actress. Some sources date her birth to 3 August 1860. In 1922, Zankovetska became the first recip ...

, Marian Krushelnytskyi,

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, Antonina Osypovych,

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, Vasyl and Hanna Yurchak, and others.Дрогобицька О. Рубчакова Катерина Андріївна // Західно-Українська Народна Республіка 1918-1923. Енциклопедія
Т. 3: П - С
Івано-Франківськ: Манускрипт-Львів, 2020, s. 358-359, ISBN 978-966-2067-65-1. She died on 22 November 1919 from

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in Zinkivtsi, now

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, Ukraine. In 1958, thanks to the efforts of her daughter Olha, she was reburied at the Mykulynetskyi cemetery in Ternopil next to the grave of actress Teodoziia Bentsaleva.

Family

Kateryna Rubchakova was the sister of Antonina Diakova, Vasyl and Mykhailo Kossak, and Mariia Kostiv-Kossakivna. On 28 January 1899, in Rohatyn, she married singer . Mother of actresses Yaroslava, Olha, and Nadiia Rubchakivna, mother-in-law of

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Roles

She has played 79 dramatic, 27 operetta, and 18 opera roles, among others: * "Nazar Stodolia" Taras Shevchenko's, * "Tsyhanka Aza", "Oi ne khody, Hrytsiu...", Marusia Bohuslavka Mykhailo Starytsky's, * "Khaziaïn" Ivan Karpenko-Kary's, * "Chorna pantera i bilyi vedmid'" Volodymyr Vynnychenko's, * "Ghosts" Henrik Ibsen's, * "Les Romanesques" Edmond Rostand's, * "Liebelei" Arthur Schnitzler's, * "Mirele Efros" Jacob Gordin's. The best opera roles: * "Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube" Semen Hulak-Artemovsky's, * "Kateryna" Mykola Arkas's, * "Enei na mandrivtsi" Yaroslav Y. Lopatynsky's, * "Faust" Charles Gounod's, * "Tales of Hoffman" Johann Offenbach's, * "Madame Butterfly" Giacomo Puccini's, * "Halka" Stanisław Moniuszko's. The theatre director

Stepan Charnetskyi Stepan Mykolaiovych Charnetskyi (; ; 21 January 1881 – 2 October 1944) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, journalist, theatre and music critic, and theatre director and producer, author of the anthem of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen "Oi u luzi ...

wrote about her performance as Ryta in Vynnychenko's drama: "Rubchakova came to the fore among the performers, who, playing the Black Panther, was especially famous in Act II...".Чарнецький, С
Історія українського театру в Галичині. Нариси, статті, матеріали, світлини
/ С. Чарнецький, Львів: Літопис, 2014, s. 130.

Honoring

In 1981, the centenary of Rubchakova's birth was celebrated under the auspices of

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. In 1989, in Kyiv,

Petro Medvedyk Petro Medvedyk (; 22 October 1925 – 2 December 2006) was a Ukrainian literary critic, folklorist, ethnographer, bibliographer, art historian, local historian. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1998), member of the Lviv Commissio ...

published the book "Kateryna Rubchakova". In Chortkiv, a house of culture was named in Rubchakova's honor and a bust was erected (1991, sculpted by Dmytro Stetsko). The local history museum has an exhibition dedicated to her. She also has streets named in her honor in Khmelnytskyi, Chortkiv, Borshchiv, and

Nahirianka Nahirianka () is a village or rural settlements () located in the Chortkiv Raion (district) of the Ternopil Oblast (province of Western Ukraine). It hosts the administration of Nahirianka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The area of ...

References

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