Pakharevsky, Leonid

Pakharevsky, Leonid [Пахаревський, Леонід; Paxarevs'kyj], b 16 September 1883 in Shcherbashyntsi, Kaniv county, Kyiv gubernia, d 1938. Writer, actor, director, and translator. He graduated from Kyiv University and the Lysenko Music and Drama School. He began to publish his work in 1905; the short story collections Budenni opovidannia (Everyday Stories, 1910) and Opvidannia (Stories, 1913) and the plays Nekhai zhyve zhyttia! (Long Live Life! 1907) and Todi, iak lypy tsvily (When the Linden Trees Blossomed, 1914) were published. Pakharevsky translated from Gerhardt Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, August Strinberg, and other authors. He did not take part in the literary life of the Soviet period, and the details of his own life at that time are almost unknown. He fell victim to the Soviet terror of the 1930s.

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