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Pchilka (Пчілка) Olena
(1849— 1930)

Olha Drahomanova-Kosach, better known by her pen name Olena Pchilka, was a Ukrainian publisher and writer and ethnographer. She was married to Petro Kosach and the mother of Lesya Ukrainka, perhaps the most well-known Ukrainian female poet.

Pchilka recorded folk songs, folk customs and rites, and collected folk embroidery in Volhynia, later publishing her research. She published numerous works, and was active in the feminist movement. Both in her writing and in her personal life Pchilka rigorously espoused antisemitic views, for which she was shunned and laughed at by her contemporaries, such as Chikalenko, Yevfremov, Vynnychenko and other intellectuals. She also translated into the Ukrainian language many famous works, such as those of Nikolai Gogol, Adam Mickiewicz, Aleksandr Pushkin and others.

Ukraine, 1999.06.22, Gadyach. Olena Pchilka

Ukraine, 1999, Olena Pchilka