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| Born | Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (1895-03-19)March 19, 1895 Kiev |
| Died | 24 July 1964(1964-07-24) (aged 69) Kiev |
| Resting place | Baikove Cemetery |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | Ukrainian language |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Kiev University |
| Genre | Neoclassicism, Social realism |
| Years active | 1907–1964 |
| Notable works | "Troyandy j vynohrad" (Roses and vine) |
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Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (Template:Lang-uk; Template:Lang-ru; 19 March [O.S. 7 March] 1895 in Kiev – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences.
Rylsky was born in Kiev in 1895 in a family of public activist, ethnographer, publicist, member of the "Kiev Stara Hromada" (Old Community), Tadei Rozeslavovych Rylsky. His early education, young Rylsky received at home. In 1908 he entered the 3rd grade of the Kiev Private Gymnasium of Volodymyr Naumenko. During his gymnasium period Rylsky befriended with families of Mykola Lysenko and Oleksandr Rusov. In 1915-17 he studied at medical faculty of Kiev University, with creation of Ukrainian People's University in October of 1917, Rylsky transferred to its history and philology faculty.
Due to Russian invasion in late of 1917, Rylsky left Kiev and with his brother Ivan worked at food administration in the city of Skvyra, later worked as a rural teacher in villages nearby.
He began writing poems as a representative of the "pure art" doctrine, during the years when the Stalinists adopted the official doctrine of "socialist realism". In 1937 he was involved in rewriting the libretto of Mykola Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba, returning later to neo-classical forms. Maksym Rylsky is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the 20th century and master of the genres of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoclassicist group of Ukrainian poets, who employed traditional poetic forms with rhyme and meter, wrote in a clear and accessible contemporary idiom, and often referenced Ancient Greek and Roman mythology as well as numerous other authors from world literature in their poetry.
Rylsky was also a prolific translator from English, French, German, and Polish as well as a folklore and literary scholar, who worked most of the earlier part of his life as a teacher of philology. He published his first book of poetry at the precocious age of fifteen—On White Islands in 1910. His other early books of poetry include The Edge of the Forest: Idylls (1918), Under Autumn Stars (1918), The Blue Distance (1922), Long Poems (1924), Through a Storm and Snow (1925), Beneath Autumn Stars (1926), Thirteenth Spring (1926), Where Roads Meet (1929), and Echo and Re-echo (1929).
During the wartime period he wrote two masterful long poems that deviated from socialist realism—“Thirst” (1942) and “Journey to Youth” (1941-4), for which he was again publicly chastised. In 1942 he became Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, Folklore and Ethnography in Kyiv, a post that he held until his death in 1964. The Institute now bears his name. He published some 30 collections of original poetry during his lifetime as well as numerous translations and scholarly works. By 1974 almost five million copies of his works in the original or in translation had appeared in the USSR.
Rylsky joined Communist party in 1943 and was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1946, being awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize in 1960, and Stalin Prize in 1943 and 1950.
References
- Tsion, V. A son of szlachcic and peasant (Син шляхтича і селянки). Zbruch. 19 March 2015
External links
- Rylsky's works in Ukrainian
- Solovei, E. Maksym Rylsky (РИЛЬСЬКИЙ МАКСИМ ТАДЕЙОВИЧ). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
- Hlibchuk, V. His secret Rylsky took to the grave as he could not last to Ukraine (Свою таємницю Рильський забрав у могилу, бо так і не дочекався України). Halychyna. 21 January 2016
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