Mukhyn, Mykhailo

Mukhyn, Mykhailo [Мухин, Михайло; Muxyn, Myxajlo], b 9 September 1894 in Kyiv, d 7 September 1974 in Altan, West Germany. Literary scholar and publicist. After the First World War he emigrated to Prague, and after the Second World War, to Germany. He was a regular contributor to Samostiina dumka (Chernivtsi) and Dmytro Dontsov’s journal Vistnyk. Among his major works are critiques of Mykhailo Drahomanov’s ideas (eg, ‘Drahomanov bez masky’ [Drahomanov without a Mask], Vistnyk, 1934) and essays on Ukraine in contemporary Polish and Russian literature (Knyholiub, 1927–32), and French literature in 1920–30 (1931).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]