He belonged to the modernist artistic movement of Moloda muza [uk].

In 1920, he headed the Ukrainian Agrarian Party [uk], which recognized the Polish authority over Eastern Galicia and declared its participation in the elections to the Sejm scheduled for November 1922, in the event of a boycott of the elections announced by all major Ukrainian political parties in Galicia.

Breaking the boycott of the elections led to a death sentence for him by the Ukrainian Military Organization.

[1] Tverdokhlib was shot during the election campaign, on October 15, 1922, in Kamionka Strumiłowa.

His friend, the sculptor Zygmunt Kurczyński [pl], intended to make a monumental tombstone with symbolic statues for him, but the poet's widow gave up on this idea and ordered an ordinary tombstone.