Friends!

Friends! This day 122 years ago Feodosy Osmachka was born - a Ukrainian writer, poet and translator with a very uneasy fate. Today I will tell you the story of his life.

Feodosy Osmachka was born on May 16, 1895 in the village of Kutsovka (Cherkasy region). His father Stepan was very hardworking, he was a worker in the estate of the landowner Tereshchenko, and later he himself learned to be a veterinarian. Stepan's children were also capable and hardworking - they all received secondary education. And Feodosy even independently graduated from the Kiev’s Institute of Public Education in 1925.

But he was drafted into the army to participate in the First World War. Then he wrote a poem "Soldier’s deem" for which he came under the military-political court. But the revolution thundered and Osamachka was fired.

While studying at the Institute, Feodosy actively participated in literary life. He joined the Writers' Association, which was headed by Nikolai Zerov, and later with friends - Grigory Kosynka, Boris Antonenko-Davidovich and others, entered the "Links".

The first collection of poetry by Osmachka "Krucha" was published in 1922. Its characteristic features were strong images, good folk speech and mighty power of thought.

The last book of Osmachka, which was printed in the Soviet Ukraine, was the collection "Klekit". It was published in 1929 - just on the eve of the planned destruction of the intelligence - the trial of the Union of Liberation of Ukraine.

This collection is full of strong poetry, according to which Osmachka was equated with Shevchenko, because he depicted a powerful image of the peasantry, which was the driving force of the revolution, and later became its own victim.

Bloody years were gaining momentum and Feodosiy’s friends began to disappear in the cellars of the NKVD. Literary-critical articles brand Osmachka as "enemy" and "bandit". Therefore, he decides to flee to Poland. He is arrested and sent to Sverdlovsk, and the poet runs away suddenly and again tries to get to Poland. There he is arrested again and then accused of espionage.

To escape from the murder, Feodosiy simulated madness. He was transferred to a psychiatric hospital in Kiev. The terrible things that Osmachka experienced there, he described in the novel "The Rattle of Homicide." He retired from the hospital through the German occupation - doctors were frightened and ran away from it. The poet walked home on foot, to Cherkasy.

And from there, he got Lviv. He again tried to join the active literary life, but years of imprisonment and torture made themselves to be felt. It was in this city that Osmachka met his greatest love. He lived at the Villa "Party", trying to cope and move away from one of the most difficult stages of his life.

And Mother Superior of Joseph tried to do the same. In the world she was named Elena Veter,

She lived and studied in Kiev. She was extremely patriotic, she was friends with students, who subsequently gave their lives during the Battle of Kruty.

From the Bolsheviks fled to Lviv, where she became a nun. During the Soviet occupation of the city, she was arrested, wanted to obtain a certificate of Metropolitan Sheptytsky. During the interrogations, the woman was beaten, threatened to burn alive, raped. But she did not say anything. She was to be shot, but the Germans captured Lviv and the prisoners were released. Joseph was sent for treatment - to the same villa where Osmachka was.

He saw her - and seemed to come alive. He fell in love at first sight and really wanted them to be together. And Joseph refused to go for walks. her heart didn’t melt from his serenades under her window - he had a beautiful voice and sang from the heart. But Joseph just picked up things and left. Unfortunately, Osmachka was doomed to loneliness. Wounds he suffered during life, there was no one to cure, he was left alone with them.

At the end of 1944 Feodosy Osmachka was forced to emigrate. First Osmachka and Samchuk moved to Germany, created the Artistic Ukrainian Movement there. In the emigration Feodosy created a new extremely talented and strong works "The Senior Boyar", "The Plan to the Court." From Germany, Osmachka moved to the United States, lived for some time in Canada, visited France, traveled Yugoslavia.

Somehow in summer 1961, walking through Munich, Feodosy fell right in the middle of the street. He had a nervous paralysis. His friends transported him to New York by plane. He tried to continue to create in the hospital, wrote a book of poems and aphorisms. September 7, 1962 Osmachka died.

Friends! Feodosy Osmachka died alone, but this ending can not be the final memory of him - a talented Ukrainian poet, writer, who lived and worked in one of the most terrible periods for the Ukrainian intelligence.