Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky

Mikhaylo Kotsyubinsky (born Sept. 5 [Sept. 17, New Style], 1864, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died April 12 [April 25], 1913, Chernigov, Ukraine) was a novelist and short-story writer whose work was one of the highest achievements of Ukrainian modernism. Kotsyubinsky graduated from Shargorod Seminary in 1880. He did not begin to publish his writing until 10 years later, working in the interim as a teacher and statistician. Kotsyubinsky’s philosophical and stylistic evolution from populist realism to...