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S. Naguevichi, Drohobych povet, Galicia - May 28, Lviv) - writer, poet, fiction writer, scientist, publicist and activist in the revolutionary socialist movement in western Ukraine. One of the initiators of the founding of the Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party, which operated in Austria.

In honor of Franko, the city of Stanislaviv was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk.

Biography

Born into the family of a peasant blacksmith; In his stories, he depicts the first years of his childhood in the lightest colors. The father died before his son graduated from the Drohobych Basilian “normal” school. His stepfather, also a peasant, took care of the continuation of his education. Soon Franco’s mother also died, so for the summer he came to someone else’s family - and yet staying there seemed like paradise to the boy in comparison with school, where rude and uneducated teachers, pampering the children of the rich, inhumanly tortured the children of poor parents; According to Ivan Franko, he learned his hatred of the oppression of one person by another from a normal school. Both here and later at the gymnasium, he was the first student; in the summer, the high school student tended cattle and helped in field work; poetic translations from the Bible, ancient and Western European writers, which he was then engaged in, wrote in the folk Ukrainian language.

Having entered Lvov University in 1875, Franco joined the student circle of the so-called “Muscovophile” party, which was then still strong in Galicia; this party used “paganism” as a literary language, that is, a mixture of Church Slavonic with Polish and Ukrainian words. In this language, Franco began to publish his poems and the long fantasy novel “Detrii and Doboshchuk”, in the style of Hoffmann, in the organ of Muscovophile students “Friend”. One of the first who turned his attention to the work of the young poet Ivan Franko was the Ukrainian poet Belilovsky Kesar Aleksandrovich, who in 1882 published the article “A few words about the translation of Goethe’s Faust into Ukrainian by Ivan Franko” in the Kiev newspaper Trud.

Under the influence of the letters of the Kyiv professor Mikhail Drahomanov, the youth, grouped around “Friend,” became acquainted with Russian literature of the era of great reforms and Russian writers in general, and became imbued with democratic ideals, after which they chose the language of the Galician common people - Ukrainian - as the instrument of their literary speech; Thus, Ukrainian literature received Franco into its ranks, along with many other talented workers. Enraged by the massive loss of youth, old Muscovophiles, especially the editor of Slovo, V. Ploshchansky, turned to the Austrian police with denunciations against the editors of Friend. Its members were all arrested in 1877, and Ivan Franko spent 9 months in prison, in the same room with thieves and tramps, in terrible hygienic conditions. Upon his release from prison, the entire Galician conservative society turned away from him as a dangerous person - not only Muscovophiles, but also the so-called Narodovtsy, that is, Ukrainianophile nationalists of the older generation, with bourgeois or Uniate-clerical convictions. Franco also had to leave the university (he graduated from the university course 15 years later, when he was preparing for a professorship).

Both this stay in prison, as well as a second imprisonment in 1880 and another in 1889, closely introduced Franco to various types of the scum of society and the working poor, brought to prison by poverty and exploitation, and provided him with a number of topics for fiction works that were published mainly in the Dragomanian journals he edited; They constituted Franco's main glory and immediately began to be translated into other languages. Among them, the following stand out: a cycle of stories from the life of proletarian workers and rich entrepreneurs in the oil fields in Borislav; stories from the lives of thieves and “former” people, imbued with a humane attitude to human dignity; stories and tales from the life of Jews, alien to religious and national antagonism (translated into Russian several times; poetic poems from the life of Jews seeking truth).

The prison is also inspired by cycles of lyrical works, some of which, according to a number of critics, are deeper and more talented, but less popular, full of idealistic sadness based on broad universal motives, while others, which have become extremely popular, energetically and effectively call on society to fight against social (class and economic) untruth. Franco also showed talent in the field of an objective historical novel: his “Zakhar Berkut” (1883, from the time of the Tatar invasion of the 13th century) received a prize even at the competition of the national-bourgeois magazine “Zorya”, which did not see in it the “naturalism of Zola” (pseudo-classics and scholastics - Galicians always leveled this reproach against Franco). In the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire, this novel attracted serious attention from readers to its author, who was so unlike most figures in the cultural movement of Galicia, and marked the beginning of closer communication between Ivan Yakovlevich and the Ukrainians of Russia.

Galicians also could not help but recognize the brilliant talent behind Franco’s “naturalistic” and “radical” works, despite the fact that these works contained a challenge to the entire bourgeois-clerical Galician society; Franco’s enormous reading, literary education and awareness of political-social and political-economic issues served as an incentive for the “people” to seek Franco’s cooperation in their bodies.

House of Ivan Franko in Lviv, now the writer’s museum

‎ Little by little, peaceful relations were established between Ivan Franko and the People’s people, and in 1885 he was even invited by them to become the chief editor of their literary and scientific organ “Zorya”. For two years, Franko led “Zorya” very successfully, recruited all the most talented writers from Russian Ukraine to its staff, and expressed his conciliatory attitude towards the Uniate clergy with his beautiful poem “Panski Zharty” (“Barskie Jokes”), in which the image of an old rural priest is idealized who lays down his life for his sheep. Nevertheless, in 1887, the most zealous clerics and bourgeois insisted on the removal of Franco from the editorial board; Other people also did not like Franco’s excessive love for Russian writers (Franko personally translated a lot from Russian and published a lot), in which Ukrainian chauvinism sensed “Muscolephilism.”

Franco found the highest sympathy among the Ukrainians of the Russian Empire. At that time, due to the Ems Decree in Russia, the publication of works in the Ukrainian language was greatly limited, so his collection of poems “From the heights and valleys” (“From the heights and valleys”, 1887; 2nd ed., 1892) was copied and memorized by many as a keepsake, but a collection of stories from the life of working people: “In the Poti Chola” (1890); there is a Russian translation of “By the sweat of your brow”, St. Petersburg, 1901), brought to Kyiv in the amount of several hundred copies, it was sold out in great demand. He began to publish some things in “Kievskaya Starina”, under the pseudonym “Miron”; but even in Galicia, the people’s people inevitably continued to seek his cooperation and published, for example, his anti-Jesuit story “Mission” (“Vatra”, 1887). Its continuation, “The Plague” (“Zorya”, 1889; 3rd ed. - “Vic”, Kyiv, 1902), was supposed to reconcile the people with Franco, since the hero of the story is an extremely sympathetic Uniate priest; Franco's participation in the nationalist magazine Pravda also foreshadowed peace; but the agreement between the Galician peoples and the Polish gentry, the Jesuits and the Austrian government that took place in 1890 forced Franko, Pavlik and all the progressive Ukrainians of Galicia to separate into a completely special party.

According to the agreement of 1890 (this is the so-called “new era”), the Ukrainian language acquired very important advantages in Austria in public life and school, up to and including the university, but the Ukrainian intelligentsia was obliged to sacrifice the interests of the peasants, support union with Rome and suppress Russophilia . The party of strict democrats, organized by Franko and Pavlik to counterbalance the “new era,” adopted the name “Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party”; its organ “People” (1890-95), in which Franco wrote a lot of journalistic articles, existed until Drahomanov’s death (he sent articles from Sofia, where he was then a professor); Subsequently, instead of “The People”, this very strengthened party had other newspapers and magazines.

The “people” preached selfless devotion to the interests of the peasantry, and considered the introduction of communal land ownership and artels to be a useful means for raising peasant well-being; the ideals of German socialism were often presented to the “People” as something barracks-like, “like the Arakcheevsky military settlements” (Drahomanov’s words), the Marxist theory of promoting the proletarianization of the masses was inhuman; Franco ended up popularizing (in Life and Words) English Fabianism. In religious terms, the “People” were an ardent enemy of the union and demanded freedom of conscience. In terms of nationality, the “People” held the Ukrainian language just as tightly as the “New Erists” and considered its use obligatory for the Ukrainian intelligentsia, but derived this necessity from purely democratic motives and proclaimed the struggle against chauvinism and russianism. In the polemics of “The People” against the narrowly nationalistic “Pravda”, the most caustic articles belonged to Franco; the volume of political poems he published (“Nimechchina”, “Donkey Elections”, etc.) irritated the nationalists even more. Franco carried out intensive journalistic activities and leadership of the radical party completely free of charge; they had to earn their living through hard paid work in Polish newspapers. Therefore, in the first two years of the publication of “The People,” Franco’s fictional work and his scientific studies almost ceased; Franco only had enough time free from journalism and politics for short lyrical poems (in 1893 he published the collection “Withered Leaves” - “Withered Leaves” - tender melancholy love content, with the motto for the reader: Sei ein Mann und folge mir nicht (“Be a man and don’t take my example”)).

Around 1893, Franko suddenly devoted himself primarily to academic pursuits, again enrolled in Lvov University, where he was appointed by Professor Ogonovsky as a successor in the department of ancient Russian and Ukrainian literature, then completed his historical and philological education at the University of Vienna at the seminaries of Academician Yagich, published (1894) an extensive research on John Vyshensky and doctoral dissertation: “Varlaam and Yossaf”, publishes (since 1894) the literary, historical and folklore magazine “Life i Slovo”, prints Old Russian manuscripts, etc. In 1895, after a successful introductory lecture Franko at Lviv University, the professorial senate elected him to the department of Ukrainian and Old Russian literature, and Franko could rejoice that he finally had the opportunity to throw off the “yoke of corvée” (as he called compulsory work in Polish newspapers for the sake of a piece of bread for himself and his family ) and devote himself entirely to his native science and literature. However, the Galician governor, Count Casimir Badeni, did not allow a man “who had been in prison three times” to be confirmed as a professor.

Franco’s heavy pessimistic mood was expressed in his collection of poems: “Miy Izmaragd” (1898, compiled on the model of the ancient Russian “Izmaragds”); in one of the poems, the tormented poet declared that he was unable to love his inert, unenergetic nation, but would simply be faithful to it, like a yard dog that is faithful to its master, although it does not love him. Franco outlined the depravity of the Polish-gentry society in the novels “Fundamentals of Suspilnost” = “Pillars of Society”, “For the Home Fire” = “For the Sake of the Family Hearth” 1898), etc. Works such as “Fundamentals of Suspilnost” were interpreted by Franco’s Polish enemies in the sense condemnation not only of the Polish nobility, but of the entire Polish people.

Franco paid the most for his research on Mickiewicz, on the occasion of his anniversary: “Der Dichter des Verraths” (in the Viennese magazine “Zeit”). The general indignation of Polish society denied him access to Polish newspapers and magazines, even of the most impartial shade. The source of livelihood remained work in German, Czech, and Russian magazines (“Kyiv Starina”, “Northern Courier”), but this casual income was not enough, and the poet at one time was threatened with blindness from a dark apartment and starvation with his family.

Just by this time, the “Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv”, under the chairmanship of Professor M. S. Grushevsky, acquired a progressive character and launched several series of scientific and literary publications; work in these publications began to be paid and Franko was brought in as one of the main employees. Since 1898, he was the editor of the Literary-Scientific Bulletin, a Ukrainian magazine published by the Shevchenko Society; Most of his fiction, poetic, critical and historical-literary works are published here. His novel “Perekhresni Stitches” = “Cross Paths” (1900) depicts the thorny life of an honest Rusyn public figure in Galicia, whose energy must largely be spent fighting petty squabbles and the intrusion of political enemies into his personal life. A lyrical recollection of the sad past experienced is a collection of poems: “Iz dnіv zhurbi” = “From the days of sorrow” (1900). Franco's scientific works on history, literature, archeology, ethnography, etc. are published in the “Notes” of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and - as monographs - in numerous “Proceedings” of the society’s section, one of which Franko is chairman of. An incomplete list of the titles alone of what Franco wrote, compiled by M. Pavlik, formed a voluminous book (Lvov, 1898).

Franco was familiar with the leaders of Viennese Art Nouveau Arthur Schnitzler, Hermon Bar, the Czech philosopher and future President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk, the founder of Zionism Theodor Herzl, and the head of the Polish Symbolists Stanislaw Przybyszewski.

Franco's 25th literary anniversary was solemnly celebrated in 1899 by Ukrainians of all parties and countries. The best Ukrainian writers from Russia and Austria, regardless of direction, dedicated a collection to Franko: “Hello” (1898). During Franco's lifetime, some of Franco's works were translated into German, Polish, Czech and - mainly at the end of his life - Russian.

Franco, who left politics in 1904, died in poverty during the First World War and was buried in the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv.

Literature

Drahomanov's preface to “In the Poti Chola” (Lvov, 1890), which contains Franco’s autobiography;
a detailed biography and analysis of works - in the “History of Little Russian Literature” by Professor Ogonovsky;
article by O. Makovey in “Lit.-N. Vestn." (1898, book XI); 4) “I century. Franko” - review by his professor A. Krymsky (Lvov, 1898). See Degen's article in New. The Word" (1897, book III) and Slavinsky's preface to the Russian translation of "By the sweat of his brow" (St. Petersburg, 1901). About Franco’s ethnographic works, see Professor Mustsov, in volume II of “Modern Little Russian Ethnography.”

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The main modern representative of Little Russian literature, fiction writer, poet, scientist, publicist and leader of the Democratic Party of Little Russians in Austria. Genus. in 1856 in the Galician village. Naguevichi, in the family of a peasant blacksmith; In his stories ("Little Miron" and others) he depicts the first years of his childhood in the lightest colors. F.'s father died before his son graduated from the Drohobych Basilian "normal" school; but F.’s stepfather, also a peasant, took care of continuing his education. Soon F.’s mother also died, so for the summer he came to someone else’s family - and yet staying there seemed like paradise to the boy in comparison with school, where rude and uneducated teachers, pampering the children of the rich, inhumanly tortured the children of poor parents (see autobiography .stories: “Penmanship”, “Pencil”, etc.); According to F., he learned his hatred of the oppression of one person by another from a normal school. Both here and later at the gymnasium, F. was the first student; in the summer, the high school student tended cattle and helped in field work; he wrote poetic translations from the Bible, ancient and Western European writers, which he was then engaged in, in the popular Little Russian language. Having entered the Lvov University in 1875, F. joined the student circle of the so-called party. Muscovophile, which was still strong in Galicia at that time; This pseudo-Russian pariah, under the name of love for Russia, nourishes exclusively love for its reactionary and dark elements, does not know Russian literature at all, and in his contempt for the Little Russian peasants writes the so-called. "paganism", i.e. a very ugly jargon, representing a chaotic mixture of Russian Tredyakovism with Polish and Little Russian words. In this language, F. began to publish his poems and the long fantasy novel “Petria and Doboschuk” in the style of Hoffmann in the organ of Muscovophile students “Friend”. spent 9 months in prison, in the same room with thieves and vagabonds, in terrible hygienic conditions. Upon his release from prison, the entire Galician obscurantist society turned away from him as a dangerous person - not only Muscovophiles, but also the so-called. Narodovtsy, i.e. Ukrainianophile nationalists of the older generation with bourgeois or Uniate-clerical convictions; F. had to leave the university (he graduated from a university course 15 years later, when he was preparing for a professorship). Both this stay in prison in 1877, as well as a second imprisonment in 1880 and another in 1889, brought F. closely acquainted with various types of the scum of society and poor workers brought to prison by poverty and exploitation, and presented him with a number of topics for fiction works that were published mainly in the Drahomanov-style magazines he edited ("Dzvin", "Hammer", "Hromadsky Friend" 1878, "Svit" 1880 onwards, "People" from the 90s, etc.); They constituted F.'s main glory and immediately began to be translated into other languages. Among them, the following stand out: a cycle of stories from the life of proletarian workers and rich entrepreneurs in the oil fields in Borislav; stories from the lives of thieves and former people, imbued with a humane attitude towards human dignity (the story “On the Days” = “At the Bottom of Society”, 1880) was particularly successful; stories and tales from the life of Jews that are alien to religious and national antagonism (the best of all is the novel “Boa Constrictor” = “Fist”, 1884; “Before the Light!” = “To the Light!”, 1889, translated into Russian several times; poetic poems from the life of Jews seeking truth). The prison is also inspired by cycles of lyrical works, some of which, deeper and more talented, but less popular, are full of idealistic sadness based on broad universal motives, while others, which have become extremely popular, energetically and effectively call on society to fight against social (class and economic) ) untruths. F. showed talent in the field of objective history. novel: his “Zakhar Berkut” (1883, from the time of the Tatar invasion of the 13th century) received a prize even at the competition of the national-bourgeois magazine “Zorya”, which did not see in it the “naturalism of Zola” (pseudo-classics and scholastic Galicians always opposed F . this reproach). In Ukraine, this novel attracted serious attention from readers to its author, who was so different from the hardened majority of Galicians, and marked the beginning of closer communication between F. and the Ukrainians of Russia. Behind the “naturalistic” and “radical” works of F. Galicians also could not help but recognize the brilliant talent, despite the fact that these works contained a challenge to the entire inert, unenlightened bourgeois-clerical Galician society; F.'s enormous reading, literary education, and awareness of political-social and political-economic issues served as an incentive for the people's people to seek F.'s cooperation in their bodies. Little by little, peaceful relations were established between F. and the people, and in 1885 he was even invited by them to become the chief editor of their literary and scientific organ, Zorya. For two years, F. led “Zorya” very successfully, recruited all the most talented writers from Russian Ukraine to its staff, and expressed his conciliatory attitude towards the Uniate clergy in his beautiful poem “Panski Zharti” (“Barbarian Jokes”), in which the image of an old rural a priest who lays down his life for his sheep. However, in 1887, the most zealous clerics and bourgeois insisted on F.'s removal from the editorial board; Other people of the people also did not like F.’s excessive love for Russian writers (F. personally translated a lot from Russian and published a lot), in which there is little. chauvinism sensed Muscolephilism. F. found the highest sympathy among the Little Russians of Ukraine, where his collection of poems "Z peaks and lowlands" ("From the heights and valleys", 1887, 2nd edition 1892) was copied by many and memorized, and a collection of stories from the life of working people " In Poti Chola" (1890; there is a Russian translation. "In the sweat of brow", St. Petersburg, 1901), brought to Kyiv in the amount of several hundred copies, was sold out in great demand. He began to publish something in “Kyiv Antiquity”, under the pseudonym “Miron”; but even in Galicia, the people’s people inevitably continued to seek his cooperation and published, for example, his anti-Jesuit story “Mission” (Vatra, 1887). Its continuation, “The Plague” (“Zorya”, 1889; 3rd ed. - “Vik”, Kyiv, 1902), was supposed to reconcile the Narodivtsy with F., since the hero of the story is an extremely sympathetic Uniate priest; F.'s participation in the nationalist magazine Pravda also foreshadowed peace; but the agreement between the Galician peoples and the Polish gentry, the Jesuits and the Austrian government that took place in 1890 forced F., Pavlik and all the progressive Little Russians of Galicia to separate into a completely special party (see Galician-Russian movement). According to the agreement of 1890 (this is the so-called “new era”), the Little Russian language acquired very important advantages in public life and school in Austria until the university. inclusive, but the Little Russian intelligentsia was entrusted with the obligation to sacrifice the interests of the peasants, support the union with Rome and suppress Russophilia. The party of strict democrats, organized by F. and Pavlik to counterbalance the “new era,” adopted the name “Russian-Ukrainian radical party”; its organ "People" (1890-95), in which F. wrote a lot of journalistic articles, existed until Drahomanov's death (he sent articles from Sofia, where he was then a professor); Now, instead of "The People", this very strengthened party has other newspapers and magazines. The "people" preached selfless devotion to the interests of the peasantry, a useful means for raising the cross. welfare considered the introduction of communal land ownership and artels; the ideals of German socialism were often presented to the “People” as something barracks-like, “like the Arakcheevsky military settlements” (Drahomanov’s words), the Marxist theory of promoting the proletarianization of the masses was inhuman; F. ended up popularizing (in Life and Words) English Fabianism (see). In religious terms, the “People” were an ardent enemy of the union and demanded freedom of conscience. In terms of nationality, the “People” adhered just as tightly to the Little Russian language as the “New Erists,” and considered its use obligatory for the Little Russian intelligentsia, but derived this necessity from purely democratic motives and proclaimed the struggle against chauvinism and Russ-eating. In the polemics of "The People" against the narrowly nationalistic "Pravda", the most caustic articles belonged to F.; the volume of political poems he published ("Nimechchina", "Donkeys' Choices", etc.) irritated the nationalists even more. F.'s intensive journalistic activities and leadership of the radical party were carried out completely free of charge; they had to earn their living through hard paid work in Polish newspapers. In the first two years of publication of “The People,” F.’s fictional work and his scientific studies almost ceased; F.'s time free from journalism and politics was only enough for short lyrical poems (in 1893, the collection "Withered Leaves" - "Withered Leaves" - was published - tenderly melancholy. love content, with the motto for the reader: Sei ein Mann und folge mir nicht). Around 1893, F. suddenly devoted himself primarily to academic pursuits and again enrolled in Lvov University, where he was scheduled to become a professor. Ogonovsky as successor in the department of Old Russian and Little Russian literature, then completed his historical and philological education at the University of Vienna at the seminaries of Acad. Yagich, publishes (1894) an extensive study on John Vyshensky and a doctoral dissertation: “Varlaam and Yossaf”, publishes (since 1894) the literary, historical and folklore magazine “Life and the Word”, prints Old Russian manuscripts, etc. d. In 1895, after F.’s successful inaugural lecture at Lvov University, the professorial senate elected him to the department of Little Russian and Old Russian literature, and F. could rejoice that he finally had the opportunity to throw off the “yoke of corvée” (so he called obligatory work in Polish newspapers for the sake of a piece of bread for himself and his family) and devote himself entirely to his native science and literature. However, the Galician governor, Count Casimir Badeni, did not allow a man “who had been in prison three times” to be confirmed as a professor. F.’s heavy pessimistic mood was expressed in his collection of poems “Miy Izmaragd” (1898, compiled on the model of the ancient Russian “Izmaragds”); in one of the poems, the tormented poet declared that he was unable to love his inert, unenergetic nation, but would simply be faithful to it, like a yard dog that is faithful to its master, although it does not love him. F. depicted the depravity of the Polish-gentry society in the novels “Fundamentals of Suspilnost” = “Pillars of Society”, “For the Home Fire” = “For the Sake of the Family Hearth” 1898), etc. Works such as “Fundamentals of Suspilnost” were interpreted by F.’s Polish enemies. in the sense of condemning not only the Polish nobility, but also the entire Polish people. F. paid the most for his research on Mickiewicz on the occasion of his anniversary “Der Dichter des Verraths” (in the Viennese magazine “Zeit”). The general indignation of Polish society denied him access to Polish newspapers and magazines, even of the most impartial shade. The source of livelihood remained work in German, Czech, Russian magazines ("Kievsk Star.", "Northern Courier"), but this casual income was not enough, and the poet at one time was threatened with blindness from a dark apartment and starvation with his family. Just at this time, the “Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv” received, under the chairmanship of prof. Grushevsky was progressive in nature and undertook several series of scientific and literary publications; work in these publications began to be paid and F was brought in as one of the main employees. Since 1898, he has been the editor of the Literary and Scientific Bulletin, the best Little Russian magazine published by the community. named after Shevchenko; here most of his fiction, poetic, critical and historical-literary works are published. His novel "Perekhresni Stitches" = "Cross Paths" (1900) depicts the thorny life of an honest Rusyn public figure in Galicia, whose energy must largely be spent fighting petty squabbles and the intrusion of political enemies into his personal life. A lyrical recollection of the sad past experienced is a collection of poems: “Iz dniv zhurbi” = “From the days of sorrow” (1900). F.'s scientific works on history, literature, archeology, ethnography, etc. are published in the "Notes" of the Scientific Society. named after Shevchenko and - monographs - in numerous "Proceedings" of sections of the society, in one of which F. is the chairman. An incomplete list of titles alone written by F., compiled by M. Pavlik, formed a voluminous book (Lvov, 1898). F.'s 25th literary anniversary was solemnly celebrated in 1899 by Little Russians of all parties and countries. The best Little Russian writers of Russia and Austria, regardless of direction, dedicated the collection “Privit” (1898) to F. Some of F.'s works have been translated into German, Polish, Czech and - mainly recently - Russian. From the extensive literature about F., the following are important: 1) Drahomanov’s preface to “In the Pot” (Lvov, 1890). where F.’s autobiography is located; 2) a detailed biography and analysis of works - in "Historical Little Russian Literature." prof. Ogonovsky; 3) article by O. Makovey in "Lit-N. Vistn." (1898, book XI); 4) "Iv. F." - review by prof. A. Krymsky (Lvov, 1898). See art. E. Degena in “New Word” (1897, book III) and M. Slavinsky’s preface to the Russian translation of “By the sweat of his brow” (St. Petersburg, 1901). About the ethnographer. F.'s works - from prof. N. Sumtsov in the II volume of “Modern minorities ethnography”.

Franko, Ivan Yakovlevich

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Franko, Ivan Yakovlevich (1856-1916) - famous Ukrainian writer, publicist, scientist and public figure. In the heyday of his creativity (70-80s of the 19th century) - “a representative of the worker-peasant intelligentsia of that time, a singer of the proletarianized peasantry and the first cadres of the Ukrainian working masses, an enemy of the national bourgeoisie of all stripes” [from the theses of the Agitprop of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ( boo]. Born into the family of a blacksmith in Galicia. Studied at Lviv University. Experienced the influence of ideas " Communities "and Federalist (cm.). Founder of the “Russian-Ukrainian radical party” (left-democratic), which prepared the ground for social democracy. He was repeatedly subjected to political persecution and was imprisoned. F. played a major role in the development of Ukrainian culture. His activities began in the era when the proletariat was emerging in Galicia. He was familiar with the teachings of Marx (some of whose works he translated into Ukrainian), but he did not understand the role of capital and the proletariat in historical development, remaining in the position of petty-bourgeois socialism, expressing Ch. arr. interests of the working peasantry. Franco depicted his social ideal of a free peasant community in the utopian story “Zakhar Berkut” from the life of Carpathian Rus' in the 13th century. F. was the first in Ukrainian literature to produce works that were distinguished by a strong social theme, and he was the first to give the image of a worker. In the stories "Borislav's Revelation" (1877-90), in the stories "Boa Constrictor" (1878), "Borislav to Laugh" (1881), F. showed the process of proletarianization of the peasantry, the process of capitalist accumulation in Galicia in the 70-80s. 19th century, terrible exploitation and struggle of workers in the oil fields. These early works were based on the creative method of the naturalist Zola. In his work, especially in the initial period, Franco acted as a publicist, giving the aesthetic side of his works secondary importance. F.'s lyrics of the first period are also devoted to the motives of the social struggle of the oppressed ("To Comrades from Prison", "Kamenyar", "Eternal Revolutionary"). The collection of his poems “3 Peaks and Lowlands” (1873-90) is imbued with the pathos of the revolutionary struggle for the global brotherhood of workers. Franco's satires and fairy tales served the same purpose ("Without Pratsi", "Pig Constitution", "Hostry Elder"). Since the mid-90s. F. leaves active social work and socialist positions. In the 3rd cycle of poems of his collection of intimate lyrics - “Zivyale Leaves” (1886-96), in the collections “My Izmaragd” (1898), “From the Days of Zhurby (1900) - the mood of loneliness, the consciousness of one’s powerlessness in eradicating the social evil, the motives of escape to the bosom of nature. The limitations of F.'s petty-bourgeois socialism, colored by Proudhonism, and the separation from the revolutionary labor movement culminated in F.'s work with an attempt at a reformist reconciliation of the contradictions of labor and capital. Thus, if in the first edition of the story “Boa Constrictor” (1878) the entrepreneur. Herman Goldkremer is presented in the image of a cruel oppressor, but in the third edition (1907) he is already a humane, beloved guardian of the workers, whose exploitative activities the author justifies by the law of the struggle for existence.

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F. owns numerous translations from world literature: more than 60 authors from 10 foreign languages. F. also worked as a literary critic, leaving a number of valuable works on the theory and history of literature ("Drawing the history of Russian-Ukrainian literature until 1890 p.", 1910).

Op. F.: Create, vol. I-XXXII, ed. Lizanovsky and S. Pylypenko, Kiev, 1925-31. Translated into Russian. language: Borislavskie Stories, M.-L., 1930; Boa Constrictor, [Kharkov, 1928]; Borislav laughs (Tale), M.-L., 1929; At the bottom (One Hundred Tales and Stories), Kharkov, 1927; For the sake of the hearth (Tale), [Kharkov, 1928]; Zakhar Berkut (Pictures of the social life of Carpathian Rus' in the 13th century), M.-L., 1929, etc. Lit.:

Koryak V., Drawing on the history of Ukrainian literature, 2nd version, Kharkiv, 1927; his, Ukrainian literature (Synopsis), 3rd version, Kharkiv, 1931; Doroshkevich O., Handbook of the history of Ukrainian literature, 5th edition, Kharkiv-Kiev, 1930; Muzichka A., Paths of poetic creativity of Ivan Frank, Odessa, 1927; Stepnyak M. et al., About the evidence of the 1st century. Franka, Kharkiv, b. G.; Ivan Franko (15/VIII 1856-28/V 1916), Kharkiv, 1926 (anniversary collection); Panasyuk O., Before the creative method of Ivan Frank in stories with work themes, “Life and Revolution”, Kiev, 1932, No. 2-3.

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- (1856 1916), Ukrainian writer. Participant of the national liberation movement in Galicia. In poems (collections “From the Heights and Lowlands”, 1887; “From Days of Sorrow”, 1900), poems (“The Death of Cain”, 1889; “Ivan Vyshensky”, 1900; “Moses”, 1905) motifs... ... encyclopedic Dictionary

- (August 27, 1856, the village of Naguevichi, now the village of Ivano Frankovo, Drohobych district, Lviv region, √ May 28, 1916, Lvov), Ukrainian writer, scientist, public figure. Born into the family of a rural blacksmith. He graduated from high school in Drohobych. In 1875 he entered... ... Great Soviet Encyclopedia

He was born into a farrier’s family on August 27, 1856, in the village. Naguevichi (Lviv region). Franko studied at a rural school, first in Naguevichi, and then in the neighboring village of Yasenitsa Silny. In 1864 he went to study at the Drogobitsy “normal” school.

In 1865 There is grief in his family - his father dies. Soon, stepfather Grin Gavrilik comes to Ivan Frank’s house. It was about the death of his father that Ivan Franko would write his first poem, “The Great Day of 1871” (1871). The stepfather turned out to be not an evil person and gave his stepson the opportunity to continue his studies. In 1867 the future writer graduated from school, and from 1873. study at the gymnasium, which he graduated with “excellent” marks on July 26, 1875. and receives a matriculation certificate. While studying at the gymnasium, Frank's mother Maria died (in 1872), whom he loved very much and dedicated his memories to her in the poem “Song and Practice” (1883), in the poem “Nasty Things on the Edge” (1881).
After the death of his mother, his stepfather married again, but did not change his attitude towards his adopted son and helped him continue to study.

From an early age, “Kobzar” by T. Shevchenko became I. Frank’s favorite book. In the gymnasium, he continued to form his worldview, so he was also interested in Polish, German, and French literature. As a result, Franko came to the idea that the basis of the Ukrainian literary language should be the native language.

Summer of 1874 Ivan Yakovlevich Franko travels independently for the first time in Podkarpackie and makes folklore recordings. After Drogobich in the fall of 1875. he goes to Lvov and enters the Faculty of Philosophy at Lvov University. He writes a lot and becomes the most influential person in the editorial office of Friend magazine.

While still a high school student, he published his first literary works in the student university magazine in Lviv “Friend”. Having joined the student “Academic Circle”, Franco became an active worker and author of the magazine “Friend”. In the magazine he publishes poetry, translations, and publishes his first big story, “Petria and Dovbuschuk.” Franco also published a translation of the novel “What is to be done?” M. Chernyshevsky in the magazine “Friends” (1877).

His activities, thanks to denunciations from envious people, were soon noticed, and he, along with members of the Friend magazine, was arrested. I. Franko spent 8 months in prison. before trial, but he was sentenced to only 6 weeks. After leaving prison, the writer did not give up and continued his activities. Together with M. Pavlik, I. Franko begins to publish the magazine “Public Leisure”, in which he publishes his poems “To Comrades from Prison”, “Patriotic Pores”, the beginning of the story “Boa constrictor”. Unfortunately, after the second issue the police confiscated the magazine, so the name of the magazine had to be changed to “Dzvin”.

In the renamed magazine, Franko published his famous poem “Kamenari” and the story “My strіcha with Oleksa”. The last issue of the magazine (the fourth in a row) was published under the title “Hammer”. In this issue, Ivan Yakovlevich finished publishing the story “Boa constrictor”, the satirical poem “The Thought about Naum Bezumovich”, his very popular article “Literature, its history and the most important workshops” .

At the end of 1878 I. Franko became the editor of Praca, which he eventually turned into an organ for all Lviv workers. Ivan Yakovlevich began publishing the “Dribna Biblioteka”, writing a whole list of short stories for the “Slovenian Almanac”, including “Mulyara” for the planned new newspaper “Nova Osnova”, “Borislav Smeetsya”, working on translations of “Nimechchin” by G. Heine, “Faust” "Goethe, Byron's Cain, etc., creates the "Catechism of Economic Socialism."

In March 1880 I. Franko goes to Kolomoisky district. On the way, he was arrested a second time in connection with the trial that the Austrian government was conducting against the villagers of Kolomiya. Franco spent three months in prison, after which he was sent, accompanied by police, to Naguevichi, but on the way he was once again put in Drogobicki prison, which I.Ya. Franko described it later in the story “On the Days”.

Having returned to Lviv after such adventures, he takes an active part in the workers' newspaper "Praca", writes the social program "What does the Galician community want." Also in the Praca newspaper, Franco publishes his famous poem “Hymn” (“Eternal Revolutionary”).

In 1881 Franko issues a brochure in Polish “About Pratsiu. A book for robotics." In the same year, he began publishing the magazine “Svit”. In it, in almost every issue, he publishes parts of the story “Borislav laughs”, unfortunately I.Ya. Franko was never able to publish the story to the end, because the magazine was closed. But before the magazine closed, he still managed to publish the well-known article “Reasons for evaluating the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.” In 1881, in April, Ivan Franko travels to the village. Naguevichi. There, in addition to writing new works, he performs daily village work.

In February 1885 I. Franko travels to Kyiv, where he meets with O. Konisky and V. Antonovich regarding the publication of the newspaper. But unfortunately, the negotiations were unsuccessful. The only warm memory of Kyiv is about meetings with the Lysenko, Starytsky and Kosach families. Taras Shevchenko

In the magazine “Svit”, Ivan Yakovlevich Franko publishes a number of revolutionary poetry, which were later included in the collection “From Peaks and Lowlands”. After this magazine was closed, Frank had to earn a living in the magazines “Dilo” and “Zorya”. In “Zori” he publishes the historical story “Zakhar Berkut”, and a very long article “Ivan Sergiyovich Turgenev”.

Dreaming of publishing his own magazine, Ivan Yakovlevich traveled to Kyiv twice (1885, 1886) to receive financial assistance from the Kyiv “Gromada”. But the Kyiv liberals simply did not keep their word and gave the money to Zori, and not to the writer.

IN 1886 in Kyiv, Ivan Franko married Olga Khorunzhinskaya and took her to Lvov. But his happiness was overshadowed by his dismissal from “Zori”, from that moment he had to look for how to earn money for bread. He was lucky - he became an employee of the newspaper “Courier Lvivsky”. In the same year, the collection “Through the Peaks and Lowlands” was released.

The difficult financial situation forces Ivan Frank to work at Pravda. But even the need for money could not keep him there for long - in May 1889. he breaks off his ties with Pravda and in a letter “To Whom Behind the Tsar” he accuses the “Pravda” people of nationalistic isolation.

In August 1889 I. Franko travels with a student group from Russia on a tourist trip. The Austrian government saw the writer as an attempt to separate Galechina from Austria and annex it to Russia. For this he was arrested along with the students. As a result, Franco spent 10 weeks in prison, after which he was released without trial.

In 1890 together with M. Pavlik, Ivan Franko publishes the fortnightly journal “The People”, which became the organ of the “Ukrainian Radical Party” founded this year. In “The People” the writer publishes the stories “Pig”, “Like this year there was a house”. In the same year, his collection of short stories “In the Pot” with Frank’s autobiography was published.

In Lvov, Ivan Franko organizes the “Science Reading Room”, in which he himself speaks on issues of political economy, scientific socialism, and the history of the revolutionary struggle. Franco decided to organize a fight in the scientific field. He decided to write a doctoral dissertation, choosing the topic: “Political poetry of T.G. Shevchenko."

Lviv University did not accept the dissertation for defense. Therefore, the writer goes to Chernivtsi, but failure awaits him there too. Disappointed, Franco writes a new doctoral dissertation “Barlam and Joasaph” - an old Christian spiritual novel and his literary history.” In June 1893 he is given the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

In 1893, Franco published the second (expanded) edition of the collection “Through the Peaks and Lowlands.” After it, four more wonderful collections were published: “Zivyale Leaves” (1896), “My Izmaragd” (1898), “From the Days of Zhurby” (1900) and the story “Crossing Stitches” (1900).

Since 1898 The magazine “Literary and Scientific Newsletter” begins to be published in Lviv. Naturally. That Franco immediately becomes the most active employee of the magazine, and then the editor. In this magazine he publishes his articles “From the secrets of poetic creativity”, “Lesya Ukrainka” and others.

In 1905 I. Franko writes his famous poem “Moses” and the poem “Conquistadori” in honor of the revolution in Russia. At the same time, the writer writes a review article “New History of Russian Literature.” He also appears with his famous and popular article “Ideas” and “ideals” of the Galician Muscovophile youth,” in which he shows Galician Muscophiles in all their “glory.”

In 1906 a collection of poetry “Semper tiro” was published, and a year later the story “The Great Noise” was published.

In 1907 Franko is trying to take a place at the department of Lviv University, but he does not receive an answer to his request, because... Grushevsky has already taken this place.

In 1908 Ivan Franko falls ill. Large overload led to nervous disorders and contractures of both hands. Treatment in Croatia helped me recover from this. But over time, my health began to deteriorate again. He went for treatment to Kyiv, the Carpathians, and Odessa (1913). As soon as he felt even a little bit better, he immediately got to work. Thanks to such dedication, he wrote an article about Pushkin’s drama “Boris Godunov” (1914), an article “Taras Shevchenko” (1914), poems “Yevshan-Zillya”, “Konchakov’s Glory” and others.

IN 1915 The writer’s health condition deteriorated no further. In the spring of 1916. the sick Franko moved to his house in Lvov. On March 9, 1916, anticipating his imminent death, Ivan Yakovlevich Franko draws up a will, in which he asks to transfer all his handwritten works, along with his own library, to the Scientific Society named after. T.G. Shevchenka. May 28, 1916 Ivan Franko died. Three days later, the truna with his body was temporarily placed in the crypt. But the “temporary” lasted for 10 years, only after this period the remains of the great writer were transferred to the Lichakiv cemetery in Lviv. A monument was built on the grave of Ivan Frank with a worker - a stonemason - carved on it. This monument can still be seen today.

Ivan Yakovlevich Franko (Ukrainian Ivan Yakovych Franko; August 27, 1856 - May 28, 1916) - Ukrainian writer, poet, fiction writer, scientist, publicist and figure in the revolutionary socialist movement in the kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (Austro-Hungarian Empire). In 1915 he was nominated to receive the Nobel Prize, but his premature death prevented his candidacy from being considered.

One of the initiators of the founding of the “Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party” (later “Ukrainian Radical Party” - URP), which operated in Austria.

In honor of Franko, the city of Stanislav was renamed Ivano-Frankivsk, and in the Lviv region the town of Yanov was renamed Ivano-Frankovo.

Born into the family of a peasant blacksmith; mother, Maria Kulchitskaya, came from the impoverished Ruthenian noble family of the Kulchitskys, coat of arms of Sas, and was 33 years younger than her husband. He described the first years of childhood in his stories in the lightest colors. In 1865 his father died. The stepfather, Grin Gavrilik, was attentive to the children, and actually replaced the boy’s father. Franco maintained a friendly relationship with his stepfather throughout his life. In 1872, Ivan Franko's mother died. The stepmother began raising the children.

He studied first at the school in the village of Yasenitsa-Solnaya (1862-1864), then at the so-called normal school at the Basilian monastery of Drohobycha (1864-1867). After graduating from the Drohobych gymnasium in 1875 (now the Drohobych Pedagogical University), he was forced to earn his living by tutoring. From his earnings he allocated money for books for his personal library.

In many of Franco’s autobiographical stories (“Gritseva school science,” “Pencil,” “Schönschreiben”), the atmosphere of school education of that time with its scholasticism, corporal punishment, and moral humiliation of students was artistically recreated. They show how difficult it was for a gifted peasant boy to get an education. Franko lived in the apartment of a distant relative Koshitskaya on the outskirts of Drohobych, often sleeping in coffins that were made in his carpentry workshop (“In the carpentry”). Already studying at the gymnasium, he discovered phenomenal abilities: he could repeat the teacher’s hour-long lecture almost verbatim to his comrades; knew the entire “Kobzar” by heart; he often completed homework assignments in the Polish language in poetic form; deeply and for the rest of his life assimilated the content of the books he read. His reading range at this time included works of European classics, cultural and historical works, and popular books on natural science topics. In general, the personal library of Franco the high school student consisted of almost 500 books in various languages. At the same time, Franco begins to translate the works of ancient authors (Sophocles, Euripides); under the influence of the works of Markian Shashkevich and Taras Shevchenko, he becomes fascinated by the richness and beauty of the Ukrainian language, begins to collect and record examples of oral folk art (songs, legends, etc.).

In the fall of 1875 he became a student at the Faculty of Philosophy at Lvov University. During his studies, Emelyan Partitsky provided financial assistance to Franco. He was a member of the Russophile society, which used “paganism” as a literary language. Franco’s first works were written in paganism - the poem “Folk Song” (1874) and the long fantasy novel “Petria and Dovbuschuk” (1875) in the style of Hoffmann, published in the printed organ of Russophile students “Friend”. One of the first to pay attention to the work of the young Franko was the Ukrainian poet Caesar Belilovsky, who in 1882 published an article in the Kyiv newspaper Trud, “A few words about the translation of Goethe’s Faust into Ukrainian by Ivan Franko.”

Under the influence of the letters of the Kyiv professor Mikhail Drahomanov, the youth, grouped around “Friend,” became acquainted with Russian literature of the era of great reforms and Russian writers in general, and became imbued with democratic ideals, after which they chose the language of the Galician common people as the instrument of their literary speech; Thus, Rusyn literature received Franco into its ranks, along with many other talented workers. Old Russophiles, especially the editor of Slovo, Venedikt Ploshchansky, turned to the Austrian police with denunciations against the editors of Friend. In 1877, all members of the editorial board were arrested, and Franco spent 9 months in prison, in the same cell with thieves and vagabonds, in terrible hygienic conditions. Upon his release from prison, the entire Galician conservative society turned away from him as a dangerous person - not only Russophiles, but “Narodovtsy,” that is, Ukrainophile nationalists of the older generation. Franco also had to leave the university (he graduated from the course 15 years later, when he was preparing for a professorship).

Both this stay in prison and a second imprisonment in 1880, and another in 1889, brought Franco closely acquainted with various types of the scum of society and the working poor, driven to prison by poverty and exploitation, and provided him with a number of themes for fiction works that published mainly in the Dragomanian journals he edited; they constituted Franco's main glory and immediately began to be translated into other languages. Among them are a series of stories from the life of proletarian workers and rich entrepreneurs at the oil fields in Borislav; stories from the lives of thieves and “former” people, imbued with a humane attitude to human dignity; stories and tales from the life of Jews, alien to religious and national antagonism.

The prison is also inspired by cycles of lyrical works, some of which, according to a number of critics, are deeper and more talented, but less popular, full of idealistic sadness based on broad universal motives, while others, which have become extremely popular, energetically and effectively call on society to fight against social (class and economic) untruth. Franco also showed talent in the field of an objective historical novel: his “Zakhar Berkut” (1883, from the time of the Tatar invasion of the 13th century) received a prize even at the competition of the national-bourgeois magazine “Zorya”, which did not see in it the “naturalism of Zola” (pseudo-classics and scholastics - Galicians always leveled this reproach against Franco). In the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire, this novel attracted serious attention from readers to its author, so unlike most figures in the cultural movement of the kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, and marked the beginning of closer communication between Ivan Yakovlevich and the Ukrainians of the Russian Empire.

Little by little, peaceful relations were established between Ivan Franko and the People’s people, and in 1885 he was invited by them to become the chief editor of their literary and scientific organ “Zorya”. For two years, Franko led “Zorya” very successfully, recruited all the most talented writers from Little Russia into its staff, and expressed his conciliatory attitude towards the Uniate clergy with his poem “Panskі Zharti” (“Barskie Jokes”), in which the image of an old rural priest who believes his soul “for his sheep.” Nevertheless, in 1887, the most zealous clerics and bourgeois insisted on the removal of Franco from the editorial board; Other people also did not like Franco’s excessive love for Russian writers (Franko personally translated a lot from Russian and published a lot), which Galician nationalists considered Muscovophile.

Franco found the highest sympathy among the Ukrainians of the Russian Empire. At that time, due to the Ems Decree in Russia, the publication of works in the Ukrainian language was greatly limited, so his collection of poems “From the Heights and Lowlands” (“From the Heights and Valleys”, 1887; 2nd ed., 1892) was copied and memorized by many as a keepsake, but a collection of stories from the life of working people: “In the Poti Chola” (1890); there is a Russian translation of “By the sweat of your brow”, St. Petersburg, 1901), brought to Kyiv in the amount of several hundred copies, it was sold out in great demand. He began to publish some things in “Kievskaya Starina”, under the pseudonym “Miron”; but even in Galicia, the people’s people inevitably continued to seek his cooperation and published, for example, his anti-Jesuit story “Mission” (“Vatra”, 1887). Its continuation, “The Plague” (“Zorya”, 1889; 3rd ed. - “Vic”, Kyiv, 1902), was supposed to reconcile the people with Franco, since the hero of the story is an extremely sympathetic Uniate priest; Franco's participation in the nationalist magazine Pravda also foreshadowed peace; but the agreement between the Galician peoples and the Polish gentry, the Jesuits and the Austrian government that took place in 1890 forced Franko, Pavlik and all the progressive Rusyns of Galicia to separate into a completely special party.

According to the agreement of 1890 (this is the so-called “new era”), the Rusyn language acquired very important advantages in Austria in public life and school, up to and including the university. The party of strict democrats, organized by Franko and Pavlik to counterbalance the “new era,” adopted the name “Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party”; its organ “People” (1890-1895), in which Franco wrote a lot of journalistic articles, existed until Drahomanov’s death (he sent articles from Sofia, where he was then a professor); Subsequently, instead of “The People”, this very strengthened party had other newspapers and magazines.

The “people” preached selfless devotion to the interests of the peasantry, and considered the introduction of communal land ownership and artels to be a useful means for raising peasant well-being; the ideals of German socialism were often presented to the “People” as something barracks-like, “like the Arakcheevsky military settlements” (Drahomanov’s words), the Marxist theory of promoting the proletarianization of the masses was inhuman; Franco ended up popularizing (in Life and Words) English Fabianism. In religious terms, the “People” were an ardent enemy of the union and demanded freedom of conscience. In terms of nationality, the “People” held the Rusyn language just as tightly as the “New Erists”, and considered its use obligatory for the Ukrainian intelligentsia, but derived this necessity from purely democratic motives and proclaimed the struggle against chauvinism and Rus-eating. In the polemics of "People" against the narrowly nationalistic "Pravda", the most caustic articles belonged to Franco; the volume of political poems he published (“Nimechchina”, “Donkey Elections”, etc.) irritated the nationalists even more. Franco carried out intensive journalistic activities and leadership of the radical party completely free of charge; they had to earn their living through hard paid work in Polish newspapers. Therefore, in the first two years of the publication of “The People,” Franco’s fictional work and his scientific studies almost ceased; Franco only had enough time free from journalism and politics to write short lyrical poems (in 1893, the collection “Withered Leaves” - “Withered Leaves” - of tender melancholic love content was published, with the motto for the reader: Sei ein Mann und folge mir nicht ( “Be a man and don’t take my example”)).

Around 1893, Franko suddenly devoted himself primarily to academic pursuits, again enrolled at Lvov University, where he was proposed by Professor Ogonovsky as a successor in the department of Old Russian and Ukrainian literature, then completed his historical and philological education at the University of Vienna at seminars with Academician Yagich, published (1899) [specify ] extensive psychological research about John Vyshensky and defends his doctoral dissertation: “Varlaam and Yossaf”, publishes (since 1894) the literary, historical and folklore magazine “Life and Word”, prints Old Russian manuscripts, etc. In 1895, after a successful introductory Franko’s lectures at Lviv University, the professorial senate elected him to the department of Ukrainian and Old Russian literature, and Franko could rejoice that he finally had the opportunity to throw off the “yoke of corvée” (as he called compulsory work in Polish newspapers for the sake of a piece of bread for himself and family) and devote himself entirely to his native science and literature. However, the Galician governor, Count Casimir Badeni, did not allow a man “who had been in prison three times” to be confirmed as a professor.

Franco paid the most for his research on the psychology of Mickiewicz’s work, on the occasion of his anniversary: “Der Dichter des Verraths” “The Poet of Treason” (in the Viennese magazine “Zeit”). The general indignation of Polish society denied him access to Polish newspapers and magazines, even of the most impartial shade. The source of livelihood remained work in German, Czech, and Russian magazines (“Kyiv Starina”, “Northern Courier”), but this casual income was not enough, and the poet at one time was threatened with blindness from a dark apartment and starvation with his family.

Just by this time, the “Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv”, under the chairmanship of Professor M. S. Grushevsky, acquired a progressive character and launched several series of scientific and literary publications; work in these publications began to be paid, and Ivan Franko was brought in as one of the main workers. Since 1898, he was the editor of the Literary-Scientific Bulletin, a Ukrainian magazine published by the Shevchenko Society; Most of his fiction, poetic, critical and historical-literary works are published here. His novel Perekhresni Stitches = Cross Paths (1900) depicts the thorny life of an honest Rusyn public figure in Galicia, whose energy must largely be spent fighting petty squabbles and the intrusion of political enemies into his personal life. A lyrical recollection of the sad past experienced is a collection of poems: “Iz dnіv zhurbi” = “From the days of sorrow” (1900). Franco's scientific works on history, literature, psychology, sociology, archeology, ethnography, etc. are published in the “Notes” of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and - as monographs - in numerous “Proceedings” of the society’s section, one of which Franko is chairman of. An incomplete list of the titles alone of what Franco wrote, compiled by M. Pavlik, formed a voluminous book (Lvov, 1898).

Franco was familiar with the leaders of Viennese Art Nouveau Arthur Schnitzler, Hermann Bahr, the Czech philosopher and future President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk, the founder of Zionism Theodor Herzl, the head of the Polish Symbolists Stanislaw Przybyszewski, and corresponded with the classic of Polish literature Eliza Orzeszko.

Franco's 25th literary anniversary was solemnly celebrated in 1895 by Ukrainians of all parties and countries. The best Ukrainian writers from Russia and Austria, regardless of direction, dedicated a collection to Franko: “Hello” (1898). During Franco's lifetime, some of his works were translated into German, Polish, Czech and - mainly at the end of his life - Russian.

Franco, having left politics, died in poverty during the First World War and was buried in the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv. The sons of I. Ya. Franko, the elder Taras and the younger Peter, who previously worked in the USSR in the chemical industry under contract, became writers. In 1939 they supported the annexation of Galicia to the USSR. Peter, was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, but was suspected by the Soviet authorities of disloyalty; in June 1941 he was arrested and disappeared in the dungeons of the NKVD as German troops approached Lvov. In the post-war years, Taras taught literature and wrote memoirs about his father. Franco's granddaughter, Zinovia Tarasovna, organized the volume of Franco's works that were not censored.

After graduating from school, he studied at the gymnasium and worked along the way to ensure his life after the death of his parents. Higher education in the biography of Ivan Frank began in 1875 at the University of Lvov. There he joined the “Muscovophile party.”

In 1877 he was arrested, spent 9 months in captivity, and was never able to finish his studies at the university. In his further biography, Franco was under arrest twice more - in 1880, 1889.

During his imprisonment he collected significant material for his works. The fire of struggle against injustice flared up in the writer’s soul, which was reflected in his novels. From 1885 to 1887, Franco worked as editor-in-chief of the publication Zorya. His collection “The Peaks and Lowlands”, the story “Mission”, “The Plague” gained great popularity among the people.

Also, the biography of Ivan Frank is known as an active public and political figure. Together with Pavlik, he organized a party of strict democrats - the Russian-Ukrainian Radical Party, and for a long time published the publication “The People”. In 1893, Frank’s lyric collection “Withered Leaves” was published. Around the same year, he again devoted himself to teaching.

For his research on Mickiewicz, Ivan Franko was banned from publishing in Poland. Having begun to collaborate with the Shevchenko Society, Franko began working as editor of the Literary-Scientific Bulletin.

Since then he has published many scientific works. The great Ukrainian writer died in 1916 in poverty.

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