12 Facts About Mykola Kulish

Mykola Hurovych Kulish was a Ukrainian prose writer, playwright, pedagogue, veteran of World War I, and Red Army veteran.

Mykola Kulish is considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance; he was murdered by the NKVD during Stalin's Great Terror.

From 1905 Mykola Kulish studied at the Oleshky municipal eight-year school.

Mykola Kulish continued to write short verses and small plays which were published in the military press-media.

Mykola Kulish later wrote a two-part story about this in Russian, Po vesiam i selam.

Simultaneously with it, Mykola Kulish was a member of the editorial collegiate of Chervonyi Shliakh.

Mykola Kulish's works were published in the almanac Literary Fair.

Since the end of 1929, Mykola Kulish was a member of the presidium of a new literary union Politfront.

Mykola Kulish moved out of Kharkiv back to his native Kherson region.

At the first All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers in Moscow Mykola Kulish was publicly denounced as a bourgeois-nationalist playwright.

In December 1934, after the burial of his friend Ivan Dniprovskyi, Mykola Kulish was arrested by the agents of NKVD and sent to the Solovki prison camp in the White Sea.

Mykola Kulish was one of the "lost transport" of prisoners shipped back to the mainland in 1937 from Solovki.