Mykola Chyrsky: Sylweta on creative burning on the battlefield

Руснак, Ірина Євгеніївна (2025) Mykola Chyrsky: Sylweta on creative burning on the battlefield Одноосібна. Україна, КСУБГ.

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Abstract

The life of this artist has often been compared to an adventure novel. He was born in Podillia. He voluntarily exchanged his gymnasium uniform for the military attire of a soldier in the UNR Army. The turbulent years of the liberation struggles scattered him and his brothers on different sides of the barricades, like the Polovtsians in the famous novel. They «came from the same family but they belonged to different classes» (O. Dovzhenko). The Bolsheviks shot the eldest (a monarchist tsarist officer). The middle one (an NKVD colonel) endured the fate of a repressed person. The younger brother (a chorunzhy of the UNR Army), bound to him in spirit and became his steadfast ally, offering unwavering support to the youngest of them all. And he, the darling of his mother’s heart, was interned along with his brothers-in-arms. He emerged from the Polish camp, his health forever altered by the grip of tuberculosis. He was an ardent nationalist. He carried out important tasks for the OUN. He was one of the inspirers of the nationalist symbolism — the red-and-black flag of the OUN(B). He fought against Bolshevism, moscofilism, paganism, «kukism» and «vizhgiridism». During the time of Carpathian Ukraine, he created a mobile theater of propaganda — «The Flying Stage». He loved theater, cinema, dance, and literature. He belonged to the cohort of Visnykivtsi. He wrote works of various genres. He preceded O. Dovzhenko with the film script «Ukraine in Flames» by five years. He considered the stage the passion of his entire life. He was a founder, director, choreographer, actor, theorist, and critic of the theater. In real life, he’s a well-known ladies’ man; to his detractors, he’s a «haughty person with delusions of grandeur», to his friends, he’s «dear Chyronko», and overall, he’s considered a «bearer of creative joy», a «man of action», and a «pivotal figure». He didn’t live — he burned. And fate granted him only forty years of life. He burned out, «dancing a hopak». As befits a member of the OUN, he ended his bright burning at a combat stance. In other words — on guard. There is no place of eternal rest: his grave was scattered by the winds of the Second World War... All this is about the hero of the proposed book — Mykola Antonovych Chyrsky (1902–1942). The monograph not only discusses the complex life path of a talented artist-visnykivets and the fate of his artistic works. It also offers reflections on another, still not fully explored, page of the struggle of the Ukrainian artistic elite of the interwar period for an Independent Sovereign Ukrainian State. The monograph is intended for specialists in the field of literary studies and for all those interested in Ukrainian literature of the 20th century interwar period.

Item Type:	Monograph (Одноосібна)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Микола Чирський; міжвоєнна доба ХХ століття; табори інтернованих вояків Армії УНР; українська еміграція; націоналізм; Карпатська Україна; вісниківство; літературно-артистичне товариство «Веселка»; героїчний театр; поезія; драма; фейлетон; публіцистика; кіносценарій
Subjects:	Монографії > Видані в Україні
Divisions:	Факультет української філології, культури і мистецтва > Кафедра української літератури, компаративістики і грінченкознавства
Depositing User:	Професор Ірина Євгеніївна Руснак
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2025 07:47
Last Modified:	20 Feb 2025 07:47
URI:	https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/51213

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