Dniprova Chayka

Dniprova Chayka was the pen name of Liudmyla Vasylevska (October 20, 1861 – March 13, 1927), a Ukrainian educator and writer.

[1] The daughter of a Russian village priest and a Ukrainian mother, she was born Liudmyla Berezyna in Karlivka[1] in the southern Ukraine and was educated at a private gymnasium in Odessa.

She compiled Ukrainian folk songs and oral tradition.

Because Ukrainian nationalist was suppressed within the Russian empire, the couple often found themselves under police surveillance and, in 1905, Vasylevska's writings were confiscated.

[2] A commemorative coin bearing her image was released into circulation in Ukraine in 2011, the 150th anniversary of her birth.