Oleksa Volianskyi
Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist
Олекса Волянський
Zvyniach, Austria-Hungary
Sokolivka, Stanyslaviv Oblast
Oleksa Mykolaiovych Volianskyi (Ukrainian: Олекса Миколайович Волянський; 7 October 1862 – 2 March 1947) was a Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1905).[1]
Biography
Oleksa Volianskyi was born on 7 October 1862, in Zvyniach, now Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast, to at. Mykola Volianskyi and Pavlina of Borovskyi's family.[2]
Graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. He served in parishes in the town of Tovste (1887–1889, employee, now a village in Chortkiv Raion),[3] Siret (1889–1893, administrator, now Romania),[4] Kryvorivnia (1893–1923, now Verkhovyna Raion), and Sokolivka (since 1923, now Kosiv Raion).[5]
Head of the Prosvita reading society in Kryvorivnia. It is known that at. Oleksa Volianskyi helped Volodymyr Shukhevych collect materials for a book about the Hutsul region. He had a large library and archive, which were burned by Russian officers during World War I.[5]
His home in Kryvorivnia was visited by Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Hrushevsky,[2] Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Hnat Khotkevych, Vasyl Stefanyk,[2] Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Olha Kobylianska, Antin Krushelnytsky,[2] Ivan Krypiakevych, Oleksandr Oles, Marko Cheremshyna, Yevhen Tymchenko, Ivan Trush, Andrey Sheptytsky,[6] Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,[2] and others.[5]
He corresponded with I. Franko, V. Hnatiuk, and M. Kotsiubynsky. He left memories of I. Franko, M. Kotsiubynsky and others.[5] Letters to V. Hnatiuk are kept in the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine.[1]
Died on 2 March 1947 in Sokolivka, Kosiv Raion, where he was buried.[2]
Family
In 1886, he married Mariia Burachynska, the daughter of a priest, at. Andrii Burachynskyi from Kryvorivnia.[2] They had three children – Volodymyra, Roman, and Kekyliia.[7]
Honoring the memory
Memorial plaques in honor of at. Oleksa Volianskyi were installed on the facades of churches in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.[2]
On the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the birth of Oleksa Volianskyi:[2]
- 2012 was proclaimed the "Year of Oleksa Volianskyi" in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast;
- At the initiative of the NGO Zelenyi Svit, a Carpathian yew tree was planted in honor of at. Volianskyi in Zvyniach, Chortkiv Raion, as well as linden trees in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.
References
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Арсенич, П., Волянський Олекса Миколайович // Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 330. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Олександр Степаненко (2017-11-12). "Олекса Волянський: «Дати народу якісну освіту, а народ сам дасть собі раду!»". Золота пектораль.
- ^ (in English) Tluste // Dmytro Blazheyovskyi. Historical sematism of the Eparchy of Stanyslaviv: From its establishment until the outbreak of World War II (1885–1938), Записки ЧСВВ, Секція I, Т. 51, Lviv: Misioner, 2002, S. 217, ISBN 966-658-228-4.
- ^ (in English) Seret // Dmytro Blazheyovskyi. Historical sematism of the Eparchy of Stanyslaviv: From its establishment until the outbreak of World War II (1885–1938), Записки ЧСВВ, Секція I, Т. 51, Lviv: Misioner, 2002, S. 194, ISBN 966-658-228-4.
- ^ a b c d Волянський Олекса Миколайович, П. І. Арсенич, Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс], Редкол.: І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.] ; НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2006.
- ^ Галина Терещук (2012-08-21). "Криворівня — село, що напуває спокоєм (фото, відео)". Радіо Свобода.
- ^ Ганна Пророчук (2023-11-07). "Олекса Волянський — священик і громадсько-культурний діяч Гуцульщини". Гуцульський край.
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