Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit was a Ukrainian Hutsul artist, writer, folk writer, philosopher, folk scientist, ethnographer and dialectologist.
18 Facts About Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit was born in the family of Stefan Plytka, a blacksmith in Kosiv district.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit was an educated man who knew several languages.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit graduated four classes of the school, but thanks to her father learned different languages, so during World War II she worked as a translator.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit got frostbite in her feet and had to stay in the prison hospital.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit had to use crutches for almost 5 years.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit started taking pictures of people and handing them their portraits.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit did not discuss her prison life in the belief that her stories would only bring the villagers pain.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit became involved in public affairs, working in forestry and taking part in the village's artistic activities.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit joined the choir, wrote, drew and took photographs.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit later withdrew from the public eye and led a more private life.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit lived as an ascetic, sometimes eating only what villagers brought her.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit kept a coffin in her house for her funeral, with a space left for a date.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit's opus is titled, "Present to the native land": it contains 46 manuscripts and printed books of 500 pages each, as well as dozens of small booklets with her own illustrations and improvised bindings.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit compiled a dictionary of the Hutsul dialect, wrote stories, fairy tales and a fantastic adventure novel, Indian Glow, about the adventures of Hutsuls in India.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit started taking photographs in the 1970s and continued until her death.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit never exhibited her photos, keeping them under her bed.
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Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit took pictures of villagers and their children, landscapes, holidays, nature and more.