27 Facts About Borys Hrinchenko

Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko was a classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and ethnographer.

Borys Hrinchenko was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Borys Hrinchenko was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Democratic Party.

Borys Hrinchenko was an author of seminal ethnographic, lexicographic, and pedagogical works, literary studies, historical reviews, the first textbooks in the Ukrainian language, particularly Native word, the school-book for reading.

Borys Hrinchenko was born on December 9,1863, in the khutir of Vilkhovy Yar, in the Kharkiv Governorate of the Russian Empire, but was baptized in the Archangel-Michael church in a village of Borshcheve.

Borys Hrinchenko's father was a retired army officer of an impoverished noble heritage.

Borys Hrinchenko's family possessed 19 desyatinas of land, mostly forest and a water mill.

Borys Hrinchenko's father knew Ukrainian well and used it only when talking with neighboring peasants, whereas at home everyone in the family spoke Russian.

Borys Hrinchenko was excluded from school and spent couple of months in prison where he became sick on tuberculosis.

In 1891, the Brotherhood of Tarasivtsi was founded, and Borys Hrinchenko soon became an active member of it.

Borys Hrinchenko taught in the villages of Kharkiv, Sumy, Ekaterinoslav.

Borys Hrinchenko writes a lot, his works are regularly published in magazines and almanacs.

Borys Hrinchenko belonged to the group of the most prominent representatives of Ukrainian populism.

Borys Hrinchenko expressed his political views in his program of the UDRP and in "Letters from Dnieper Ukraine".

Borys Hrinchenko died on May 6,1910, in the town of Ospedaletti in Liguria, Italy.

Borys Hrinchenko was one of the active contributors to the critical and bibliographic department of the Zorya magazine.

Borys Hrinchenko published his consolidated works on the current bibliography under the title "News of Ukrainian Literature" and "New Ukrainian Books" under the pseudonyms V Chainenko and V Vilkhivsky.

Borys Hrinchenko demanded that the Zorya editorial office work systematically on current bibliographic information, pointed to insufficient review of Galician printing houses, omissions of certain works, and advocated the publication of reviews of monthly periodicals.

Borys Hrinchenko dedicated a special article "Popular Books" to her, often responding to novelties in this literature.

Borys Hrinchenko translated works by Friedrich Schiller, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Victor Hugo and others.

Borys Hrinchenko fought for the education of Ukrainian children in their native language, advocated the purity of the Ukrainian literary language.

Borys Hrinchenko created several school textbooks, including "Ukrainian Grammar", "Native Word".

One of the brightest works of Borys Hrinchenko is the poem "To compatriots who once a year gather to sing the anthem on Shevchenko's anniversary", in which the poet expressed his vision of the attitude of the Ukrainian pseudo-intelligentsia to Ukraine.

The first badge "For personal contribution to the development of the University" with a bas-relief of Borys Hrinchenko was given to the wife of the former rector of the Interregional Institute for Teacher Training Victor Hryhorovych Slyusarenko.

In 2011, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Ukraine's independence, a monument to Borys Hrinchenko was unveiled in Kyiv, built at the expense of teachers and students of the Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University with the support of the Kyiv City State Administration.

Biographical and literary portal "Borys Hrinchenko online" contains the results of research on the life and work of Boris Dmitrievich, as well as the most complete library of his works on the Internet, the uniqueness of which lies in the chronological categorizer by periods of artistic activity.

The Resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of 2013 on the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Borys Hrinchenko noted that by the date of birth the Luhansk Regional Council and Luhansk Regional State Administration will provide repair and restoration work at the Hrinchenko Memorial Museum in Mykhailivtsi, Perevalskyi district, Luhansk region.