What Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Church Martyr arranged a Ukranian schedrivka in 1916?
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Shchedryk (song) "Shchedryk" (from , "Bountiful Evening") is a Ukrainian "shchedrivka", or New Year's carol, known in English as "The Little Swallow". It was arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916, and tells a story of a swallow flying into a household to sing of wealth that will come with the following spring. "Shchedryk" was originally sung on the night of January 13, New Year's Eve in the Julian Calendar (December 31 Old Style), which is "Shchedry Vechir". Early performances of the piece were made by students at Kyiv University.
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Mykola Leontovych Leontovych was born and raised in the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine). He was educated as a priest in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary and later furthered his musical education at the Saint Petersburg Court Capella and private lessons with Boleslav Yavorsky. With the independence of the Ukrainian state in the 1917 revolution, Leontovych moved to Kiev where he worked at the Kiev Conservatory and the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama. He is recognized for composing "Shchedryk" in 1904 (which premiered in 1916), known to the English-speaking world as "Carol of the Bells" or "Ring, Christmas Bells". He is known as a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Church, where he is also remembered for his liturgy, the first liturgy composed in the vernacular, specifically in the modern Ukrainian language. He was assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1921.
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Barlaam of Kiev Barlaam of Kiev (Russian: Варлаам Печерский, "Varlaam Pecherskiy" ) (11th century) was an Eastern Orthodox saint. He was the first abbot of the monastery Kiev Pechersk Lavra, located in Kiev, Rus', and served together with Anthony of Kiev.
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Basil Kovpak Basil Kovpak (Ukrainian: Василь Ковпак, Vasyl' Kovpak ) is a Ukrainian Traditionalist Catholic priest and the founder and current head of the Priestly Society of Saint Josaphat. Formerly a priest of the Archeparchy of Lviv of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), Kovpak was excommunicated by the UGCC in 2007.
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John Kornievsky John Kornievsky (February 20, 1910, Okonechnik, Omsk Oblast - June 13, 1984, USSR) was a Russian Greek Catholic priest, and a member of Russian apostolate in the Diaspora.
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Maxim Sandovich Maxim Timofeyevich Sandovich (Russian: Максим Тимофеевич Сандович , Polish: Maksym Sandowicz ; 1 February 1888 - 6 August 1914) is a New Martyr and Orthodox saint. known as saint hieromartyr Maxim of Gorlice (Polish: "Maksym Gorlicki" , Russian: Максим Горлицкий ). He is the protomartyr of the Lemko people.
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Kuksha of the Kiev Caves Saint Kuksha of the Kiev Caves (died after 1114) was a monk and martyr from the Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) in Kiev, Ukraine. He has been canonized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church for his work spreading Christianity among the heathen East Slavic tribe of Vyatichi (of the Oka basin, in present-day Kaluga, Ryazan, and Tula oblasts of Russia). This story is told of him:
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Oleksander Tysovsky Dr. Oleksander Tysovsky (Ukrainian: Олександер Тисовський alternately Oleksandr Tysowskyj) (August 9, 1886 – March 29, 1968), pseudonym: "Drot", was the founder of the Ukrainian Scouting organization Plast in 1911, and adapted the universal Scout principles to the needs and interests of Ukrainian youth. In 1944 he emigrated to Vienna. He was involved in Plast in exile, as well, and took part in a camp celebrating the 45th anniversary of Plast in "Plastova Sich" in Canada in 1957. He died in Vienna 1968 and was buried in Vienna. He was reburied at the famous Lychakivskiy Cemetery in Lviv in 2002.
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Pavlo Vasylyk Pavlo Vasylyk (Ukrainian: Павло Василик ; 8 August 1926 – 12 December 2004) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was clandestine bishop from 1974 to 1991, an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk from 1991 to 1993 and the first eparchial bishop of the new created Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi from 1993 until his death in 2004.
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Ioan (Bodnarchuk) Metropolitan Ioann (secular name Vasyl Mykolayovych Bodnarchuk, Ukrainian: Василь Миколайович Боднарчук , Russian: Василий Николаевич Боднарчук ; 12 April 1929 – 9 November 1994) was an Orthodox hierarch born in the Ternopil area of Western Ukraine, which at that time was a territory of Poland. During his life he was successively bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church (1977–1989), in the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (1989–1992) and in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate (1992–1994).
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Serhii Vasylkivsky Serhii Ivanovych Vasylkivsky (Ukrainian: Сергій Іванович Васильківський , ] , Russian: Серге́й Иванович Васильковский ; October 19, 1854, Izium — October 7, 1917, Kharkiv) was one of the most prolific Ukrainian artists of the pre-revolutionary period and an expert on Ukrainian ornamentation and folk art.
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Victor J. Pospishil Archimandrite Monsignor Victor J. Pospishil (1915 – 2006) was a Ukrainian Catholic priest and a leading scholar on Canon law and the Eastern Catholic churches.
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Yakiv Yatsynevych Yakiv Mikhailovych Yatsynevych (Ukrainian: "Яків Михайлович Яциневич", 1869-1945) was a prominent Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works.
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Sofron Dmyterko Sofron Dmyterko O.S.B.M. (1 June 1917 – 5 November 2008) was a Ukrainian Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
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Victor Batiuk Victor Batiuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Гаврилович Батюк ) (1939 – 1996) was a Ukrainian diplomat and poet, who has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He was the only one who knew Bengali and translated Rabindranath Tagore into Ukrainian.
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Oleksandr Stoyka Oleksandr Stoyka (Ukrainian: Олександр Стойка ; 16 October 1890 – 31 May 1943) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1932 to 1943.
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Sydir Kovpak Sydir Artemovych Kovpak (Ukrainian: Сидір Артемович Ковпак ; Russian: Си́дор Арте́мьевич Ковпа́к, "Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak" ), (June 7, 1887December 11, 1967) was a prominent Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine.
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Epiphanius Shanov Epiphany Shanov (Bulgarian: Епифаний Шанов 1849–1940) was a Bulgarian Uniate priest.
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Nicodemus (Rusnak) Metropolitan Nicodemus (secular name Nikolay Stepanovich Rusnak; 4 April 1921 – 15 September 2011) was the Ukrainian Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv.
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Antin Sielava Anton Atanas Sielava (Belarusian: Антон Сялява , Ukrainian: Антін Селява , Polish: "Antoni Sielawa" ) (1583 – 5 October 1655) was the Metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and Russia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1641 to his death in 1655.
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Epiphanius Slavinetsky Epifany Slavinetsky (Russian: Епифа́ний Славине́цкий ) (died November 19, 1675) was an ecclesiastical expert of the Russian Orthodox Church who helped Patriarch Nikon to revise ancient service-books. His actions precipitated the "raskol", the great schism of the national church.
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Boris Lyatoshinsky Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Ми́колайович Лятоши́нський , "Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi"; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.