L Ukrainian biography

She was called that - Lesya Ukrainian. Although it was her fake name. In childhood, she had other weekend data " - Larisa Petrovna Kosach. The transformation went in stages. At first it was possible to change the name. And only as the new ethnic identity is found - also the surname. The main role in this artificial mutation was played by the mother of an experimental rabbit - Olga Dragomanova, a little -known children's writer, composing under the pseudonym The mother’s birth was Greek - the name of the ancestor of Lesi -Larisa, who, as the family legend, was the same, to the army of Bograd Khmelnitsky and the translator of the Dragon, which was earned in the illiterate Cossacks.

Ekaterina Second great -great -grandfather Lesya Stefan Dragomanov, who was still writing his surname in Greek letters, received, like most of the Little Russian foreman, the nobility from the imperial government. Stefan Dragomanov successfully married the daughter of the Gadyachsky Cossack foreman - Kolodyazhensky and acquired, thanks to the successful investment of his masculine nature, an excellent house in Gadyachu now - the district center of the Poltava region and the estate under it in the village of Monastic Budschi.

The presence of a strong economic base, based on the work of the peasants, subsequently allowed Dragomannov, like many Russian nobles of the 19th century, to “droop” for his pleasure, not too careful about his career. So in the bosom of this family “progressive” ideas penetrated. Brother of the maternal grandfather, ensign Jacob Dragomanov, not knowing what to do with himself, went to the "Decembrists".

True, he did not reach Senate Square - he affected the sick, but, by the decision of the investigation commission, he was transferred from St. Petersburg to the Staroinermanland regiment without deprivation of an officer rank - "under the strict supervision of a regimental, brigade and divisional authorities." Under "strict supervision" he prescribed poems that he published in St.

Petersburg magazines. Naturally, about their native places, but in Russian: a magnificent psel boils and foams, how cute you are dense oaks, bent from the shores! But the waves were majestic, leaving your canopy, they swim in green dollars ... In general, he graphomed a little - the granddaughter did not leave a large literary talent. On the male line, the ancestors of Lesya Ukrainka came from the crown gentry of the Commonwealth - True, Orthodox.

Over time, the kosachi settled in the Chernihiv region - in Mglin now the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation and joined the Cossack foreman. These are amazing places. Neither Russia, nor Ukraine - with transition dialects representing a mixture of two languages. In the days of the hetman - a hundredth Cossack place. Then - the district city of the Chernihiv province. Mglin entered the history of Russian culture thanks to the verses written by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy, in response to the epigram of Pushkin.

Worse, there were no this town in mind, if there were no Novorzhev in the world. The landowner of the Mglinsky district from the village of Krasny Rog Aleksey Tolstoy - the great wit and one of the creators of Kozma Prutkov - added to these immortal lines no less than the fourth -fourth: there is another city, sweet to Jews and cows, stands meadows with Novorzhev.

As you can see, from the same county and estate - the Russian nobility - the outstanding Russian poet Alexei Tolstoy could occur and the unknown dad of the Ukrainian poetess - Peter Kosach. So it happens! Moreover, along his mother’s line, Alexei Tolstoy was a direct descendant of the hetman Razumovsky. This is how, it turns out, everything is bombarded! And they want to prove to us that Ukrainians are one thing, and the Russians are completely different.

It’s like flies and cutlets! Dad had the future Lesya Ukrainka personally had a pretty quality to me - he loved to make children. Having learned without long at St. Petersburg University and participating there in some student "fermentation" in Vladimir, at the end of which he was counted on the Ministry of Justice. The misconceptions of youth in his career did not affect his career - immediately after receiving the diploma, the young man entered the service in the Kyiv Chamber of the Criminal Court and defended the dissertation of the candidate of law.

And in the year - at just 25 years - received a warm place of the chairman of the Novograd -Volyn meeting of world intermediaries. As a profitable groom, who also had a clear predisposition to marriage, the young judicial official easily achieved the hands of Olga Dragomanova, his sister of his university friend. The temperamental and ambitious Olga dreamed of becoming a famous writer, but the insidious lawyer did not allow her to sublimate - as soon as she sat down at the desk, as the young man fascinated her beloved wife in bed and forced her to fulfill her married duties.

Soon after the wedding, the first -born - Michael. And just a year later - Larisa is the future Lesya. The restless chairman of the collection of world intermediaries rejoiced and longed to immediately begin to create a third child - they say, all of Europe is experiencing a Baby -boom and we must not lag behind!Such a passionate desire to breed and multiply plunged Olga Dragomanov into shock, and she escaped from an insatiable husband abroad - under the gentlythrous pretext of correcting health after severe births.

But the child -loving lawyer showed himself from the best side! According to the official biographer of Lesia Ukrainka Anatol Kostenko: "Pyotr Antonovich took a vacation and, consulting with doctors, he nursed his daughter with the help of an artificial diet, which at that time was new and unusual." Of course, it was easier to take an ordinary nurse. Artificial nutrition did not increase the health of little Larisa, as it does not add to anyone today.

An old -mode tits - and now more reliable! Science has never come up with anything better to cultivate healthy offspring. But let's not forget - it was an advanced family who sought to experiment even on their own children. In addition, Mr. Kosach was afraid of a jealous wife. What if, having returned from the resort, he is jealous? A feeding daughter from a bottle, like a teddy bear, dad "on maternity leave" an unheard of business for that time!

In honor of her mother, the baby was named Olga. And then why stop there! It was a real sexual giant! Just tribal bugay, and not the chairman of the court intended for consideration in the accelerated procedure of minor criminal cases. Although, maybe this "accelerated procedure", which left a lot of free time for personal life, was to blame for such sexual activity?

Be that as it may, artificial nutrition entered the life of the future poetess literally from the diapers - first in a direct, and then in the ideological sense. Her young mother, unable to develop her own talent, decided to make her children with the famous writers and began to rapidly educate them in a pseudo -popular style. The little Mikhas and Losyu were so originally called in the family, the still not renamed Lesya was dressed in peasant suits, sought to protect from the Russian-speaking environment and dragged on the deaf villages of the Novograd-Volynsky district and pagan games.

With dressing, it was true, the fabrics were chosen more expensive than that of the peasants, preserving only the folklore style of the cut, everything went along the insidious maternal plan. During the visits to Kyiv, the mowed brother and sister were remembered by their peers from intelligent families with a wild “native” design of the outfit. Staritskaya, - Lesya - in an embroidered shirt, white hair is neatly collected and tied with a ribbon.

Even then, Lesya had a painful appearance, it was quiet, shy. "It was worse with isolation from the literary Russian language. While they were sitting in the village near Novograd-Volynsky, the defense more or less managed to keep, as in the caches. But it was worth going to the city or inviting one of the relatives to visit and they, as a sin, unlike the idea of ​​total Ukrainization on the idea of ​​total Ukrainization, Olga Dragomanova did not want to forget their native Russian language - especially the sisters of Peter Antonovich Kosach, and all the "purity of the experiment" was a cold.

The bacilli of the great and powerful language of Pushkin and Tolstoy penetrated the uninhabited consciousness of the little Larisa and whispered: “You are a moose, not Lesya! Remember! Larisa Kosach’s letters to my grandmother showed that in childhood she spoke“ Dad ”, and not“ Tat ”,“ Grandma ”, and not“ Babyes ”,“ Letters ”,“ Letter ” And where is the Ukrainian language here?

Thirteen -year -old Lesa writes to Gadyach from the college on May 14. By this time, the moose was already renamed Lesia. Tamara, who was presented to the name "turn" - is not another unaccounted child in the family of a tireless manufacturer Pan Kosach, but already mentioned by me above Oksana. Thinking, my mother decided to elevate her from Lermontov Tamar to Shevchenkovsky Oksans!

In the name of the same Ukrainian nationality and the struggle with the "Moskalskiy Vennings." Dragomanova in Gadyach on June 9, such things! We went to bed in the evening, there was Tamara sister. Woke up - there is no. Mom "ate". Instead, Oksanochka. Love this one now. And you will be bad, and we will rename you. It is also good that Mrs. Kosach boys did not change clothes into girls, and vice versa.

And that is, mothers who pour such tricks. Moreover, even today. But a certain "accentuity" of the psyche of Olga Petrovna is evident. It was still that "patchka". Bees and wasps were buzzing with whole roots in her head! In Kyiv - the city of multinational and tolerant - the wife of the chairman of the Novograd -Volyn meeting of world intermediaries perceived, if not as a city crazy, then at least a woman with oddities.

She fiercely hated Marco Vovchok, believing that she abducted her literary glory.It was especially ridiculous to hear such formulations from the lady whose ancestors - Greek emigrants - had even less relation to Ukraine than Masha Vilinskaya, who married the Little Russian landowner Markovich and who took the Ukrainian pseudonym for their literary divisions. After all, everyone remembered the origin of the Dragoman and their ability to adapt to the "damned" royal regime.