Background
GRINCHENKO, Mariva was born in 1863 in Bogodukhov, Khar’kov Province.
GRINCHENKO, Mariva was born in 1863 in Bogodukhov, Khar’kov Province.
Teacher by profession. 1891 first lit work published. Translated into Ukraine works of Turgenev, Mamin-Sibiryak, Lev Tolstoy, Ibsen, Mark Twain, et cetera
Wrote popular studies of Philisophy Sagaydachnyy and Abraham Lincoln, also memoirs of I. Nechuy-Levitskiy and V. Samoylenko. Helped prepare for publ acad Slovar'ukrainskogo yazyka (Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language), compiled by B. Grinchenko and published 1927-1929 under the editorship of A. Yu.