Nicholas Wave. Barracks, outside of town.

Nicholas Wave. Barracks, outside of town.
State publishing house of Ukraine. 1926. 23 sec. Publishing soft cover, 17,2 x 13,2 cm

The protagonist of the piece nurse Yefim, after reading on the fence the poster with an appeal of the revolutionary Committee of the underground beat "nemuru and gaidamakina" offers his colleague Masu "help comrades" that ends with the death of two friends.

Mykolai Khvyliovyi (real name Nicholas Fitilev), a talented Ukrainian writer, master of the psychological novel with elements of romanticism and impressionism.

Mykola khvyl'ovo (real name Wick Nikolay Grigoryevich ) ( 1 December 1893 , Trostianets , now Sumy region - may 13, 1933 , Kharkov ) - Ukrainian writer, poet, publicist, one of the founders of the post-revolutionary Ukrainian prose .

His father, Grigory Alekseevich, was of the nobility, in everyday life, as he wrote the son of Russian. "A highly disordered man" and a drunkard. Spoke in Russian, and it was thanks to him that the guy "read Russian classics early, got acquainted well with foreign ones - Dickens, Hugo, Flober, Hoffman."

 He studied at the elementary school in the village of Kolontaev, where his mother taught, Elizabeth (before marriage-Tarasenko), then Bogodukhov gymnasium, which could not finish because of the revolutionary unrest in the country. Teenager traveled in search of work in the Donbass and the South of Ukraine. Later he worked as a mechanic at a craft school, in the office of the volost administration of the village rublevki, participated in the local "Enlightenment". From 1916-participant of the first world war . Training in the trenches of the war, the civil war formed a staunch Bolshevik . At the head of the rebel group, which he organized at the end of 1918 in the Kharkiv region, fought against the Hetman, Germans, Drozdov, UNR army. In April 1919 he joined the CPSU (b). In the same year he married a teacher, Catherine gaschenko, had her daughter, Iraida, but the marriage quickly disintegrated. In early 1921, he went to conquer the capital, Kiev . Worked as a mechanic at the factory. Married Julia Umantseva, who had a daughter from his first marriage - Love, her Wave was a mother and affectionately called Lovage. In the same year began to be printed in Newspapers and magazines, in almanac "Stack", "Alarm". Actively declared himself as one of the organizers of literary and artistic life, a founding member of many literary organizations of that time: first, " Garth "(1923 ) it was he who conceived the idea of creating a semi-official Studio" Urbino", which was going to his apartment and was a prototype of WAPLITE ( 1924 ) then were" WAPLITE "(1926), (Vice-President)VUSPP ( 1927), " Prolitfront " (1930 ).

In the 1920s, he fully supported and implemented the policy of "Ukrainization" , opposed Russification and "educational" vectors of development of Ukrainian Soviet culture. In 1925, in the newspaper "Culture and life", edited by Vasyl Ellan-Blue, published an article "on" Satan in a barrel", or graphomaniacs, speculators and other enlightenment", which actually initiated a literary debate 1925-1928 years. By the end of 1925 he published a book of pamphlets called " Kamo gryadeshi?", And in 1926 - " Thought against tide»; in the same year in the journal "UPLIT" printed the following series of pamphlets - "the Apologists polariza". A peculiar continuation of these pamphlets was the famous article " Ukraine or little Russia?"That, however, during the life of the author and has not appeared in print. In these works, the author demanded before the new Ukrainian literature to stop imitating Moscow and focus on "psychological Europe". He believed that the leading role of Europe in the cultural process should be replaced by the "Eurasian Renaissance", in which the leading role was assigned to the new Ukrainian culture. With the position of Khvylovy identified Ukrainian national Communists, the literary group of "neoclassical" headed by M. Surovym wide circles nationally conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia. In the summer of 1926, at the height of the literary debate, the first part of the novel "Valdshnepy" was published, where his characters, tirelessly polemizing, seek answers to the most pressing questions, destroy the acute problems of national life, national and cultural revival of Ukraine, comprehending the difficult lessons of the revolution. However, it is these reflections that have been subjected to crushing criticism. Despite this, khvyl'ovo passionately objected to the so-called macavity, the profanation of art, its reduction to the role of ideological service of party and state policy, mentioned the need to get rid of dependence on the "Russian conductor", because for most of the then writers had the ambition to copy the finished forms and methods of Russian literature.

In December 1927 - March 1928 Volnova was in Berlin and Vienna on treatment and actively got acquainted with achievements of the European culture, worked in the plan of promotion of the Ukrainian literature outside Ukraine. During his stay in Berlin and Vienna Volnova is an active correspondence with Arkady Lyubchenko , from which it is evident that the German culture has made a great impression on the writer. In a letter to Lubchenco, on 16 December 1927 [ he writes that "the view is that. This testifies at least the same Berlin that I live in it for several days."The following correspondence of the Wave recommends Lubchenco, like all "aplican", to visit Europe, while noting that "in Germany you have to visit, and then Italy, France ..."In one of the letters from the Austrian capital on March 2, 1928, Volnova asks her addressee:" What is the case with translations into German? At all costs, we must bring our literature to the wider European arena. In short, we must take heart - our "ahead of" " .

In January 1928, before returning to Ukraine, in a letter to the newspaper " Communist "he was forced to condemn his slogan" Away from Moscow!". Upon his return he continued to embody the preliminary ideological orientation of Waplite in the magazines "Literary fair" (1928-1930) and "Prolitfront" (1930-1931). After closing both magazines tried to write, keeping the "party line", but was almost completely isolated from the literary life of the Soviet regime. In the spring of 1933, the writer together with Arkady Lyubchenko visited Poltava region, where he saw the tragedy of the Holodomor. With this journey back physically and mentally broken. In an atmosphere of frenzied persecution, perhaps sensing the approach of total terror, after the arrest of his friend, the writer Mikhail Yalova in protest against the beginning of mass repressions against Ukrainian intellectuals on may 13, 1933 in Kharkov, in the house of writers "Slovo", committed suicide. The death of Khvylovy became a symbol of the collapse of the ideology of Ukrainian national communism and the end of the Ukrainian national revival 1920-1930-ies. The works by M. Khvylovy and the name remained forbidden until the last years of existence of the totalitarian regime in Ukraine.

Condition is good, the cover moves away from the block, traces of moisture, small tears cover. Rare Museum level.