Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska

Born into a family of Ukrainian intelligentsia, Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska grew up in an atmosphere of appreciation of the arts and national values.

[1] Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska, like other Ukrainians, including her family, had a tragic life and unfair death due to Russification policy.

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska died during the journey to exile in Kazakhstan[4] and her body was thrown from the train at a location still unknown.

Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska wrote poetry, prose, drama, memoirs and literary criticism for various publications including the Lviv almanac, Pershyi Vinok.1913 – Wings ('Kryla') 1917 – The Last Sheaf ('Ostanniy snip') 1918 – Hetman Petro Doroshenko 1926 – Bandit Karmeliuk ('Rozbiynyk Karmeliuk') 1927 – Ivan Mazepa Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska's memoirs include: 1893 – Before the Storm (Pered bureiu), is a historical novel, which was published in instalments in Pravda, Lviv journal, during 1893–1894.

[5] There is some parallel between The Living Grave and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet along with Gottfried August Bürger's Lenore.