Dzvinok

Dzvinok («Дзвінок»; Little Bell). Illustrated biweekly for children and adolescents published in Lviv from 1890 to 1914. At first Oleksander Barvinsky (1890) and Volodymyr Shukhevych (1891–2) published and edited the magazine. From 1892 the Ruthenian Pedagogical Society published it under the editorship of Shukhevych, V. Biletsky (1896–1902 and 1904–8), Konstantyna Malytska (1903), Katria Hrynevycheva (1909–11), and Ivan Krypiakevych (1912–14). Among the writers associated with the magazine were Hanna Barvinok, Leonid Hlibov, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ivan Franko, Uliana Kravchenko, Ivan Lypa, Hnat Khotkevych, and Lesia Ukrainka. Among the illustrators were Teofil Kopystynsky and I. Kosynyn. Franko’s Lys Mykyta (The Fox Mykyta) was first published in Dzvinok. Dzvinok was an outstanding educational children’s magazine of artistic quality.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]