Karmeliuk-Kamensky, Kostiantyn

Karmeliuk-Kamensky, Kostiantyn [Кармелюк-Каменський, Костянтин; Karmeljuk-Kamens'kyj, Kostjantyn], b 1858 in Koziatyn, Berdychiv county, Kyiv gubernia, d 1932 in Harbin, Manchuria. Stage actor and director. He organized a Ukrainian theatrical troupe that, starting in 1904, toured Caucasia, Turkestan, Siberia, and the Far East (1912). In 1916 it toured Japan (Kobe, Tokyo, Yokohama, and Kamakura) and China (Shanghai), and in the following year it visited Ussuriisk and Vladivostok. Its repertoire included Ivan Kotliarevsky’s Natalka Poltavka (Natalka from Poltava), Marko Kropyvnytsky’s Vii, Mykhailo Starytsky’s Tsyhanka Aza (Aza, the Gypsy Girl), and Oleksii Sukhodolsky’s Khmara (The Cloud). In 1918 the troupe broke up, but many of its members remained in the Far East and joined other drama groups.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]