Oleksa Volianskyi
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Oleksa Volianskyi | |
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| Олекса Волянський | |
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| Born | 7 October 1862 |
| Died | 2 March 1947 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | Lviv Theological Seminary |
Oleksa Mykolaiovych Volianskyi (Ukrainian: Олекса Миколайович Волянський; 7 October 1862 – 2 March 1947) was a Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1905).[1]
Oleksa Volianskyi was born on 7 October 1862, in Zvyniach, now Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast, to at. Mykola Volianskyi and Pavlina of Borovskyi's family.[2]
Graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. He served in parishes in the town of Tovste (1887–1889, employee, now a village in Chortkiv Raion),[3] Siret (1889–1893, administrator, now Romania),[4] Kryvorivnia (1893–1923, now Verkhovyna Raion), and Sokolivka (since 1923, now Kosiv Raion).[5]
Head of the Prosvita reading society in Kryvorivnia. It is known that at. Oleksa Volianskyi helped Volodymyr Shukhevych collect materials for a book about the Hutsul region. He had a large library and archive, which were burned by Russian officers during World War I.[5]
His home in Kryvorivnia was visited by Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Hrushevsky,[2] Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Hnat Khotkevych, Vasyl Stefanyk,[2] Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Olha Kobylianska, Antin Krushelnytsky,[2] Ivan Krypiakevych, Oleksandr Oles, Marko Cheremshyna, Yevhen Tymchenko, Ivan Trush, Andrey Sheptytsky,[6] Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,[2] and others.[5]
He corresponded with I. Franko, V. Hnatiuk, and M. Kotsiubynsky. He left memories of I. Franko, M. Kotsiubynsky and others.[5] Letters to V. Hnatiuk are kept in the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine.[1]
Died on 2 March 1947 in Sokolivka, Kosiv Raion, where he was buried.[2]
