Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
On November 13, 1889, on a farm near the town of Hrun in Poltava Oblast (now Sumy Oblast), Ostap Vyshnya was born. He was a Ukrainian writer, short story writer, and a classic of 20th-century satirical prose. He pioneered a new genre, the smile.
The Hubenko family raised seventeen children, the second of whom was Pavlo. He graduated from the two-class Zankovets school and the Kyiv military paramedic school. He worked as a paramedic in the Kyiv railway hospital. In 1917 he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Kyiv University. He worked in “Selyans’ka Pravda” and in the magazine “Chervony Perets”.
The Bolsheviks arrested Ostap Vyshny twice. In 1934, he was sentenced to 10 years in camps for “terrorist conspiracy.” He served his sentence in the Ukhtym-Pechora camp. In 1937, he was to be shot. For this purpose, he was transferred to another camp across the Pechora River. Since the river was covered with ice, the arrested could not be transported to their destination for a long time. During this time, the camp commander was shot, and the order to execute Ostap Vyshny was lost.
In 1943, Nikita Khrushchev, at the request of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, persuaded Stalin to release Ostap Vyshnia so that his work could inspire the fight against the Nazis and the Ukrainian underground. At that time, he wrote a collection of pamphlets about “bourgeois nationalists” – “An Independent Hole”, which saved the writer from further repression.
During Ostap Vyshny’s lifetime, over 100 collections of his works were published. In 1922, about 80 of his smiles and feuilletons were published, and in 1923, over 270. In 1924, 9 collections were published, and in 1929, 28. From 1923 to 1930, the following collections were published: “Heavenly Deeds”, “Some Are Merry, Some Are Sad”, “Literary Smiles”, “Face to the Village”. A series of collections “Vyshny Smiles” on various topics was also published. These are rural, cooperative, Crimean, theatrical and foreign. In 1958, the series “Hunting Smiles” – “Catfish”, “Hare”, “Moose” and others.
In 1955, Ostap Vyshny was rehabilitated. On September 28, 1956, the comedian died at the age of 66. He was buried in Kyiv at the Baikovo Cemetery.
More information at the book exhibition in the college library and information center. We invite you to view it.
Svitlana ANDRIYCHUK,
Lead Librarian of the BIC
