On the Biography of Olha Andriievska: Based on Materials of the Archival-Investigation Case

Abstract

The article reveals the main milestones of the biography of O. Andriievska based on materials of the archival-investigation case stored in the Central State Archive of Public Associations and Ukrainica. It is about her socio-political, scientific and charitable activities during the first third of the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on her work in the institutions of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences). O. Andriievska is a participant of Ukrainian scientific courses conducted by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi and Ivan Franko in Lviv. She was a good friend of the writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi. The woman was often engaged in charitable activities: she helped refugees during the First World War, as well as those who suffered deprivation during the Soviet era. She belonged to the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists, worked as party secretary. In 1919 she joined the Commission for compiling a dictionary of the Ukrainian living language at the First Department of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, where she held various positions. In 1930 O. Andriievska was repressed on trumped-up case, the "Union for the Liberation of Ukraine" (Spilky Vyzvolennia Ukrainy, or SVU).