Top 12 Famous People of Chernihiv
Tychyna wrote not only poems but also he was a translator: he fluently spoke in Bulgarian, Armenian, French and Turkish, and was an active public figure. The place in which the poet was born affected on his work, because Chernihiv is one of the most charming corners of Ukraine with its unsurpassed nature. P. Tychyna expressed his admiration for his native land in his poem "You Have Not Been in Our Territories!"
Pavlo Tychyna was born on January 23, 1891 in the village of Piski, now Bobrovytsya district, Chernihiv region. The father of the future poet was a village deacon and a teacher in a grammar school. Tychyna found talent in music, drawing and verse. Although he studied at the Chernihiv Theological College, then - at the Chernihiv Theological Seminary, but he did not become a priest. He was attracted by art.
The meeting with the Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsшubynsky, whose literary Saturdays he regularly visited and there he began to read his poems, had a great influence on the aspiring poet. Kotsubinsky was the first to notice the young man's talent. In 1912 Tychyna was published his first poem "You know how a linden rustles." From 1913 to 1917 he studied at the Faculty of Economics at the Kyiv Commercial Institute, but did not complete it. At the same time he worked as an editor of "the Rada" newspaper and a technical secretary of the editorial office of "Svitlo" magazine (1913–1914), and an assistant choirmaster at the Mykola Sadovsky Theater (1916–1917). In summer, he worked at the Statistical Office of the Chernihiv City Council. So, in summer and autumn in 1914-1916 Tychyna worked as a traveling instructor and accountant-supervisor of the Chernihiv Provincial Bureau of Statistics. This gave him the opportunity to make a number of valuable folklore records. He was a member of the Chernihiv Independent Brotherhood - a youth underground organization that was headed by Vasyl Ellan-Blakytnyj.
In 1919, his collection "Solar Clarinets" was published in Kyiv. Tychyna created her own poetic style, which was called "clarinetism".
In 1920 Pavel Tychyna traveled with K. Stetsenko's chapel "Thought" on the Right-Bank Ukraine from Kiev to Odessa. In the same year, he organized the choir (since 1921 - the M. Leontovich Chapel Studio), with which he performed until 1923.
In 1923, Pavlo Tychyna moved to Kharkiv, where he worked for "the Red Road" magazine. 1926 took an active part in the creation of the Free Academy of Proletarian Literature, headed by Khvylovyi.
Since 1929 – became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1940-1943, Tychyna headed the Institute of Literature of the USSR. In 1943-1948 he became Minister of Education of the USSR. From 1953 to 1959 Pavlo Tychyna was chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Deputy in the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, member of many societies, committees, presidiums, cavaliers of orders and medals. The Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the USSR (1962), which he has received in 1967, also he was a winner of the USSR State Prize (1941).
