On the Literary Work of Vasyl Andriievskyi

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the literary work of Vasyl Vasyliovych Andriievskyi, the Ukrainian social and political figure, a participant of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1921, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian political emigration in Yugoslavia, a writer and a journalist, native of the Chernihiv region. The preface highlights biography and social and political activity of V. Andriievskyi in Ukraine and emigration. It is specified that until recently, his literary work was not known, because he published his stories under pseudonyms and cryptonyms. Owing to processing of the archival-investigation case of V. Andriievskyi, which is stored in the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, the origin of pseudonyms was found out and the circle of magazines in which his prose works were published was determined. Four stories by V. Andriievskyi under the pseudonym “Vasyl Nekrashevych” are published for the first time, which are printed in the month of writing, art, science and public life “Nova Ukraina” (“New Ukraine”) (Prague, 1923, editors V. Vynnychenko, M. Shapoval) as well as in the illustrated fortnightly “Svit” (“The World”) (Lviv, 1926-1927, chief editor I. Kvasnytsia).