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Ukrainian writer (1888–1980) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrivna and the family name is Kosach.
Izydora Kosach-Borysova
Ізидора Косач-Борисова
A young white woman with hair in a bouffant updo, wearing a white pleated blouse with a dark bow at the neckIzydora Kosach as a young woman
BornIzydora Petrivna Kosach
21 March 1888
Kolodiazhne
Died12 April 1980
Piscataway, New Jersey
Occupations
  • Writer
  • agronomist
  • plant physiologist
  • translator
  • educator
MotherOlena Pchilka
RelativesMykhailo Drahomanov (uncle)
Lesya Ukrainka (sister)
Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk (sister)

Izydora Petrivna Kosach-Borysova (Ukrainian: Ізидора Петрівна Косач-Борисова; 21 March 1888 – 12 April 1980) was a Ukrainian writer, scientist, educator, and translator.

Early life and education

Kosach-Borysova was born in Kolodiazhne, the daughter of Petro Antonovych Kosach and writer Olena Pchilka. Writers Lesya Ukrainka and Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk were her older sisters, and Mykhailo Drahomanov was their uncle. She was one of the first women admitted to Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, and graduated from the school's agronomy program in 1911.

Career

Kosach worked in the viticulture industry in Kyshyniv; after 1917 she taught and researched plant physiology in Kyiv, and worked as a translator of French literature. She was convicted of "counter-revolutionary agitation" in 1937, and spent two years in a labor camp, and at Lukianivska Prison in Kyiv. She left Ukraine with her daughter and her sister Olha in 1944 after she was imprisoned by the Gestapo. She spent time in refugee camps, and moved to the United States in 1949.

Kosach-Borysova wrote memoirs. She and her sister, journalist Olha Kosach-Kryvyniuk, worked with Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences (UVAN) to publish their sister's works on the occasion of Lesya Ukrainka's centenary. She was an honorary member of the Union of Ukrainian Women of America.

Personal life

Kosach married Yuri Hryhorovych Borysov in 1912. They had a daughter, Olga. Her husband died in a Siberian prison in 1941. She died in 1980, at the age of 92, in Piscataway, New Jersey. In 1989, she was posthumously "rehabilitated" by the Supreme Soviet, and soon after her daughter transferred her papers to a Ukrainian archive.

References

  1. ^ Haan, Francisca de; Daskalova, Krasimira; Loutfi, Anna (2006-01-01). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. Central European University Press. p. 419. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4.
  2. ^ "Izydora Kosach-Borysova, Lesia Ukrainka's sister, dies" The Ukrainian Weekly (April 20, 1980): 2.
  3. Struk, Danylo Husar (1993-12-15). Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volume III: L-Pf. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-5125-8.
  4. Isajiw, Wsevolod W.; Boshyk, Yuri; Senkus, Roman (1992). The Refugee Experience: Ukrainian Displaced Persons After World War II. CIUS Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-920862-85-8.
  5. ""Brilliant daughter of the Ukrainian people"". Korsun-Shevchenkivskiy State Historical and Cultural Preserve. 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  6. "Olga Borysova Serheeva, talented artist". The Courier-News. 2001-07-26. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-03-27 – via Newspapers.com.

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