Olena Pchilka

Pchilka was born in Hadiach, into the family of a local landowner, Petro Drahomanov. Her family had a long tradition of opposition activities: one of her uncles was exiled to Siberia due to his participation in the Decembrist movement, her father was fired from state service for his help to poor descendants of Cossack starshyna, and her brother Mykhailo had to emigrate after co-authoring a work of satire directed against the director of his gymnasium. Pchilka received a basic education at home and completed her studies at the Exemplary Boarding School of Noble Maidens (Kyiv) in 1866. During her time at the school Pchilka published her first story, which was written in German language. ==Works==

Among the most prominent of her works are the following: • "Tovaryshky" (Comradesses, 1887), • "Svitlo dobra i lyubovi" (The light of goodness and love, 1888), • "Soloviovyi spiv" (Nightingale singing, 1889), • "Za pravdoyu" (For a truth, 1889), • "Artyshok" (Artichoke, 1907), • "Pivtora oseledsya" (One and a half herring, 1908), • a play "Suzhena ne ohuzhena" (1881), • a play "Svitova rich" (World thing, 1908) and others. == Notes ==