Mykhailo Mohylianskyi

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Mohylianskyi was a Ukrainian literary critic and publicist, a literary scholar, a researcher at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the head of the Commission for compiling a biographical dictionary.

In 1933, the commission for compiling the Biographical Dictionary of Ukrainian Figures was liquidated, and its head was dismissed. Unable to live in Kyiv, he went to live with his eldest daughter Lidia, who was in exile. Despite his age, serious illness, and deep moral trauma caused by the loss of Lidia and Dmytro, he continued to write memoirs, tried his hand at poetry, and studied English. Before the war, M. M. Mohylianskyi moved to Dnipropetrovsk with his younger daughter Iryna. She, the only one of all the children, was not affected by the wave of repressions. Despite the hard times, he continued to work. In Dnipropetrovsk, Mykhailo Mykhailovych wrote two novels in Russian, "Everywhere Passions Are Dangerous" and "Gilda". However, it was not possible to publish these works either. The main work of his life – the novel "Honour" – remained in manuscript. With the beginning of the war, the writer and Iryna were evacuated to the Krasnodar region. He died on March 22, 1942 in the village of Velika Murta. The grave was not preserved. For the first time, the novel "Honour" appeared on the pages of the "Motherland" magazine only in 1990.