Background
PCHILKA, Olena was born on July 17, 1849 in Gadyach, Poltava Province.
PCHILKA, Olena was born on July 17, 1849 in Gadyach, Poltava Province.
Graduate Kiev Institute for Young Ladies of the Nobility.
1880’s first work printed. Worked for journal “Zorya” and almanachs “Rada” and “Pershyy vinok”. 1880, under the pseudonym N.G. Volynskiy, published S. Rudanskiy’s “Spivomovky".
1908-1914 edited and published newspaper “Ridnyy kray” in Poltava, then Kiev. From 1921 lived and worked in Kiev. Translated works of Gogol, Pushkin, Lermontov, Ovid, etc.
Also wrote for children.
Correspondent member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1927.