Background
RYL’SKIY, Maksim was born on March 19, 1895 in Kiev.
RYL’SKIY, Maksim was born on March 19, 1895 in Kiev.
1918 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Kiev University.
1910 first work printed. 1917-1929 taught at village Romanovka, then taught Ukraine at Kiev Railroad School and Kiev Institute of Public Education. From 1939 member, editorial board, journal “Radyans’ka Ukraina”.
From 1942 director, Institute of Folk Creativity and Art, Ukraine Academy of Sciences (from 1944 Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnography), Kiev. Presidium member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and Ukraine Writers’ Unions. Member, cd bd, “Ukrayns’korosyys’kyy slovnyk” (Ukrainian-Russian Dictionary) and “Russko-ukrainskiy slovar’ Academy of Sciences Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics” (Russo-Ukrainian Dictionary of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences).
Member, editorial board, journal “Vsesvyt”. Member, International Committee of Slavists. Chairman, Ukraine Committee of Slavists.
Member, Lenin Prize Committee. Attended Vienna Peace Congress. In 1920's member, “NeoClassicists” group.
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1947, 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1962 convocations. Wrote lit studies of Shevchenko, Mickiewicz and Pushkin. Wrote libretto for opera “Shchors”.
Translated into Ukraine works of Shakespeare, Boileau, Goethe, Moliere, Corneille, Edmond de Rostand, Racine, Victor Hugo, Mickiewicz (“Pan Tadeusz”), Pushkin “Yevgeniy Onegin” and “Mednyy vsadnik” (The Bronze Horseman), Gogol and Krylov. Also translated “Slovo o polku Igoreve" (The Lay of the Host of Igor).
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1958. Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1943. Communist Party member from 1943.