Poroshenko demands the reburial of the author of the Ukrainian translations of “Varshavyanka” and “Marseillaise”
Not having time to move away from the New Year celebrations, Petro Poroshenko found his subordinates a priority task - to rebury in Ukraine the ashes of the famous Ukrainian poet Oleksandr Oles, who was buried in the Czech Republic.
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This was announced by Poroshenko’s press secretary Svyatoslav Tsegolko.
“The President instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to urgently intervene in the situation with the burial of the famous Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Oles in the Czech Republic, as well as to contact his relatives in Canada to find out the possibility of his reburial in Ukraine,” Tsegolko wrote on the official page on the social network.
Let us remind you that Oleksandr Oles is the creative pseudonym of one of the most profound Ukrainian poetic lyricists, Alexander Ivanovich Kandyba. During the revolution of 1905-1907, he translated the revolutionary marches “Marseillaise” and “Varshavyanka” from Russian into Ukrainian. In 1919 he went into exile. Emigration became the tragedy of Oles' life. Periodically lived in Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, Prague. He published a number of collections abroad, the main theme of which is longing for Ukraine. The father of one of the leaders of the OUN, writer Oleg Olzhich, with whom he diverged on the basis of ideological convictions. He died shortly after receiving a message about the death of his son, Oleg Olzhich. He was buried at the Olsany Cemetery in Prague. In 2010, a monument to Oles was erected in the Czech Belopole region.
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