"Uliana Kravchenko is the pen name of Julia Maria Schneider-Niementowska (April 18, 1860 – March 31, 1947), was a Ukrainian educator, writer and the first Western ...
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Ukrainian woman to publish a book of poetry.
She was born in Mykolaiv, currently in Stryi Raion of Lviv Oblast, grew up in Lviv and studied at a teaching seminary. Her father was Julian Schneider an employee of the district office, while her mother was Julia Łopuszańska.
She made her first poetry attempts in Polish and Ukrainian under the guidance of her tutor Antonina Machczyńska [pl]. After graduating from the seminary, Ulyana Kravchenko began teaching in the town of Bóbrka. Her first published work was a story that appeared in the journal Zoria. Kravchenko was active in the Ukrainian women's movement in Galicia. Women's liberation was a major theme in her poetry; she was considered to be the bard of the women's movement. She was also one of the first women teachers in Galicia. In 1885, thanks to the efforts of Ivan Franko, she gets a job in Lviv, but in the same year she is fired for promoting socialist ideas. From then until 1900, she works as a teacher in various villages in Galicia. In 1920 Kravchenko moves permanently to Przemyśl as a retired teacher. In 1941, she takes up creative work in the Union of Soviet Writers and social work as a councilor of the Przemyśl City National Council." - (en.wikipedia.org 12.07.2024)