Pryima, Fedir

Pryima, Fedir [Прийма, Федір; Pryjma], b 8 February 1909 in Stanytsia Akhtanizovska, Kuban, d 20 April 1993 in Saint Petersburg. Literary scholar. He graduated from the Krasnodar Pedagogical Institute (1932) and worked as a senior associate at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad. Among his works are articles about Taras Shevchenko in journals and Shevchenko studies collections; Russian books on Ivan Franko, (1956), Shevchenko and 19th-century Russian literature (1961; for which he was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1964), and Slovo o polku Ihorevi (The Tale of Ihor’s Campaign) in Russian literary history of the first third of the 19th century (1980); and a Ukrainian book on Shevchenko and the Russian liberation movement (1966).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]