Tulub, Zinaida

Tulub, Zinaida [Тулуб, Зінаїда], b 28 November 1890 in Kyiv, d 26 September 1964 in Kyiv. Writer; daughter of Pavlo Tulub. She graduated from the Higher Courses for Women in Kyiv in 1913. She was first published in 1910 in Russian, and after the Revolution of 1917 she wrote in Ukrainian. In 1937 she was arrested and imprisoned in a labor camp in the Kolyma region, from which she was freed in 1947. She was allowed to return to Kyiv from forced exile in Kazakhstan only in 1955. Tulub is the author of a large-scale historical novel set in 17th-century Ukraine during the time of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, Liudolovy (The People Hunters, 1934; republished 1937 and 1958), and of a novel based on the life of Taras Shevchenko in exile, V stepu bezkraïm za Uralom (In the Boundless Steppe beyond the Urals, 1964), which was translated into English in The Exile (1988). She also wrote plays and film scenarios and translated foreign literature into Ukrainian (see Literature in translation).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]