Havrylko, Mykhailo [Гаврилко, Михайло], b 5 October 1882 in Runivshchyna, Poltava county, Poltava gubernia, d 1920 in Chernihiv. Sculptor. He studied art under Fedir Balavensky in Myrhorod (1899–1904), at Baron A. Shtiglits’s Art School in Saint Petersburg (1904–5), the Cracow Academy of Arts (1907–10), and Antoine Bourdelle’s studio in Paris. His works include portraits such as Hannusia (1909); busts of the writers Markiian Shashkevych (1910), Taras Shevchenko (1911, 1919), and Yurii Fedkovych (1913); thematic compositions such as Banduryst, The Parting, and Cossack on a Horse; and a well-known bas-relief medallion of Taras Shevchenko (1911). He took part in four competitions for a Taras Shevchenko memorial in Kyiv (1910–13), but without success. His first proposal (1910) was the most interesting one: it presented the poet in Cossack dress on a high pedestal surrounded by the heroes of his poems. Later the Soviet sculptor Matvei Manizer augmented this composition with workers and Red Army soldiers and used it for his Shevchenko memorial in Kharkiv (1935). In 1915 Havrylko joined the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, was wounded in battle, and then transferred to the Graycoats. His last work was a bust of Taras Shevchenko for the foyer of the Nikolai Gogol Theater in Poltava (1919).

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