Hrytsko Hryhorenko was the pen name for Oleksandra Sudovshchykova-Kosach, who was a Ukrainian journalist and writer
Background
The daughter of Yevhen Sudovshchykov, a Russian teacher, and Hanna Khoynatska, she was born in northern Russia where her parents had been exiled for their pro-Ukrainian activities. After the death of her father in 1868, she returned with her mother to Kiev.
Education
She was educated there and joined a literary group, the Pleyada (the Pleaides), which studied Ukrainian literature and translated foreign authors into Ukrainian.
Career
She wrote poetry in Ukrainian, Russian and French. She also translated translated Ukrainian writers into French and French, Swedish and English writers into Ukrainian. There she began writing prose and published her first collection of stories Nashi lyudy na seli (The Lives of our Peasants in 1898.
Unfortunately, he died two years later.
She completed a law degree and worked in a court. She also became involved in the women"s movement.
Her work was translated to English for the collections From Heart to Heart (1998) and Warm the Children, O Sun (1998).
Politics
He was forced to move to Estonia to continue his studies because of his political views, so Oleksandra and her mother moved to Tartu.