Franko Ivan Yakovlevich is a famous Ukrainian writer, poet, scientist, publicist. In 1915 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but an untimely death disrupted the consideration of his candidacy.
Biography
Ivan Yakovlevich was born in August 1856 on the twenty-seventh in the small village of Naguevichi in the family of a wealthy peasant blacksmith. His mother, Maria Kulchitskaya, a representative of the ruined Kulchitsky family, was thirty-three years younger than her husband. Franco in his writings always described his childhood in the brightest colors. His father died in 1865, and the boy was grieving at the loss.
Ivan began to receive his school education in Yasenitsa-Solnaya. After studying there for only two years, he was transferred to a school at the monastery. After completing his studies, Franco began to engage in tutoring. Having a great love of reading and despite serious financial difficulties, Franco regularly allocated money from his budget to replenish his personal book collection.
In 1875 he entered the Lviv University at the Faculty of Philosophy. There he also became a member of the Russophile community, which popularized "paganism" and used it as a literary language. Franco's first works were written on it. In 1877 he ended up behind bars, where he spent nine months in the same cell with murderers and thieves.
Career
In 1885 he took up the post of editor-in-chief in the print edition "Zorya". For two years he was extremely successful in publishing a newspaper. He attracted to work many talented writers from Little Russia. But despite this, the "Narodovtsy" were skeptical of the editor, they were embarrassed by their excessive love for Russian writers, in their opinion it was posturing and "Muscovite". Having retired from work in the "Zor", Ivan Franko took up work directly in the "People".
The party had a large bias in favor of the peasants, which appealed to the talented writer. Work in the party lasted until 1893. In 1893, Franco decided to take up scientific work and returned to Lviv University. In 1895 he was elected to the department of Old Russian and Ukrainian literature. However, he did not succeed in taking the post, the Galician governor expressed serious indignation at Franco's imprisonment and forbade him to be appointed professor.
Since 1898, Ivan Yakovlevich took the chair of one of the editors of the journal "Scientific and Literary Bulletin", which was published by the Shevchenko Society.
Personal life and death
The famous writer and politician suffered from mental disorders in the last years of his life. He died at the height of the First World War, in May 1916 in poverty and oblivion. The talented writer was buried in Lviv.
Ivan Yakovlevich had two sons: Peter and Taras. Peter worked for a long time in the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR, but in the late thirties he fell under suspicion of disloyalty and was arrested in 1941. Taras was a teacher of literature, and after the Second World War he followed in his father's footsteps and took up writing.
