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Already from the school desk, we are accustomed to perceiving Ukrainian literary geniuses with black and white portraits on the walls, with harsh faces and a note of some incomprehensible crawl. Millions are reading their biography, studying works, but practically never notice the most important people in them. According to each idea-purified and approved biography there is a human destiny with all its victories and failures, there is a person with all its pluses and minuses, there is a whole world that will never be unraveled to the end.

Lesya Ukrainka and Olga Kobilyansky are just great examples of how important literary images of ordinary, living people can differ. After all, both are not just a brilliant writer, but courageous, progressive, free-minded women who despite all the difficult circumstances of their life had an internal rod to live as it was to them. The ancestor of the genre of dramatic poem in Ukrainian literature Lesya Ukrainka and the cult figure of Ukrainian writer Modernism Olga Kobilyanska are considered one of the first feminists in the territory of our country. And their sensory correspondence, which lasted until the death of Lesa, contains a whole palette of emotions and feelings. What were they? Just sincere girlfriends, bisexuals or lesbians? Will try to figure out.

The history of dating

In 1891, Lesia Ukrainka, along with Mother Olena, drove to the treatment, because the girl practically all his life suffered a severe disease - tuberculosis of bones. Dear they stopped in Lviv and met a student and a close associate of Lesin Uncle Mikhail Drahomanov - Mikhail Pavlik. It is he who, upon arrival, to Vienna, sent her the story of Olga Kobilyanskaya Lorelay (preliminary name "Tsarivna"). Incidentally, this work was the author beginning to write in German, which possessed from childhood, as in Polish, Romanian, Czech, and, of course in Ukrainian.

After reading the story of Les, Mikhail writes immediately:"Something is fresh, young and original, in this story, I see a truthful literary talent, and not the dilettantism of the literal that already so around me in our literature."The guy retelled these words itself, which was terribly excited by such feedback. Obviously, then there are some correspondence "chemistry". At that time, Lesha was 20, and Olga 28.

For a year, while on treatment in Berlin, Lesya wrote Olga for the first time, a friendly communication. Upon learning that Kobilyanska plans a trip to the Archaeological Congress to Kyiv, Lesya hopes to get acquainted personally and invites Olga to the manor of Kosachiv in Gadyach (Poltava region). It was there the first meeting of women.

Known correspondence

Full picture We, unfortunately, see we can not see, because only Lesini letters are preserved to Olga, and only one letter of Kobilyanskaya to Ukrainka, the rest of the most strange manner disappeared from the personal archive of mysteries. There is a rather intimate and sensory correspondence to another personal meeting of writers when Lesya went to visit a girlfriend to Bukovina.

At that time, both women were experiencing personal drama. Lesya Ukrainka recently buried his beloved Sergei Merzhinsky - a young, captured Marxist from Belarus, which suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis. Miston was with him until the last day, and on the bed of Sergei in one night wrote an energy-powerful dramatic poem "Obsessed". Olga Kobylyanska was experiencing a rupture of relations with the greatest love of his life Osip Makiva - younger than her for three years by a teacher and literary critic. A couple of years have lived together, and when Olga dared to make a man's offer, he refused, pointing to her age. Kobylianskaya was 32. It is obvious that such circumstances were very close to women and settled in their souls absolutely new for both feelings.

The unique feature of the intimate correspondence of writers was the use of a third person instead of the first and even exclusively in the male genus: "Someone" and "Someone":"And if now there was someone and someone else, they would go together above Cheremosh, so now in the dark dark night, and she would listen to the water, and looked like a dawn through the dark clouds, and remembered Would silently, not speaking words, all the worst and all the best of their lives, the views and arms would be shot in the dark, and it would be so quiet, it would be quiet, that the river is noisy ... and then someone returned to the huts are already less sad. " .Lesya in his letters often called a girlfriend tenderly "a boyfriend", "Kitsa", and exotic "Libe, Ferne Lotos Blume" (Nym. "Cute Litus Flower"), "Libe, Libste Wunderblume" (Nym. "Cute, the Mastest, Charming flower "). Such appeals to Les and Olga were used to ensure their correspondence anonymity, since at that time, communication with such an erotic subtext between two women was completely unacceptable. In addition, they often used postcards, not letters. They reached much faster, but did not provide proper privacy.

Was the novel?

As they say in the people: no one was holding a candle. " So, of course, it is impossible to confirm or deny the intimate relationship between Lesya Ukrainian and Olga Kobilyansk. Therefore, the battles of researchers on this occurrence continue. However, not so long ago, well-known modern writer, literary criticism and publicist Solomiya Pavlichko defended his doctoral dissertation "Discourse of modernism in Ukrainian literature", where the analysis of the relations of muds was devoted to the whole section of "discourse of personal relationships. Biographical retreat. " Probably studying all available materials, Sofia came to the conclusion that Les and Olga are most likely to be lover. Lesbians of women can be called directly, since both were in relations with men. Most likely, Bisexuality took place in life, although they did not even know even the deadline. And this, in fact, happiness that women managed to show their essence and reside the entire palette of own feelings, even in such a disloyal and non-elected society.