Teodosiy Osmachko
Teodosiy Osmachko — (4 May 1895, p. Kutsivka, now Smilyansky District, Cherkasy Region — September 7, 1962, New York, USA) — Ukrainian writer, poet.[1] Representative of symbolism, expressionism and neo-romanticism. Member of the writers organizations of the Writers' Association (Aspis) and Lanka (MARS). Translator of Shakespeare's works.
Graduate of the Kiev Institute of Public Education (1925).
Biography
He was born on May 4, 1895 in the village of Kutsivka, now Smilyansky district, Cherkasy region in the family of a village worker Stepan, who worked on the estate of the landowner Tereshchenko.
In 1916 he was drafted into the Russian army to take part in the First World War.
During the First World War he was brought before the military-political court of Russia for his poem "Soldier's Thoughts".
From 1920 he was an instructor for the training of educators in Kremenchuk. He studies at the Kyiv Institute of Public Education. During his student years he began to participate in literary life.
In the early 1930s he moved to the Kuban. In 1932, returning to Ukraine in Kharkiv, he applied to the Soviet state authorities to leave the USSR due to the impossibility of creating freely. He was arrested on February 5, 1933, but was soon released due to ill health. In 1942 he moved to Lviv, occupied by Germany, from where in 1944 he moved to the West. In 1948 he moved to the USA.
Сreative activity
The first collection of poems by T. Osmachka "Krucha" was published in 1922. The work of Osmachkaо ignificantly influenced by symbolism and expressionism. In later poetry collections the influence of neo-romanticism is noticeable. In his works, Osmachkо paid special attention to Ukrainian folk traditions and ethnography.