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LIFE Born in Pisky in 1891, in 1913 Tychyna graduated from the Chernigov Theological Seminary . That year he began studying at the Kiev Commercial Institute . At the same time, he worked on the editorial boards of the Kiev newspapers Rada and Svitlo . After an immediate success with his poetry, in 1923 he moved to Kharkiv (Kharkov), entering the vibrant world of early post-Revolution Ukrainian literary organizations. In 1923 he joined the organization Hart and in 1927 the famed Vaplite . Controversies about the ideological tendencies of Vaplite and the content of several of Tychnya's poems led to him being criticized for ideological reasons. As a response, Tychyna transformed the style and content of his poetry, adapting to the increasingly repressive political circumstances. CONTROVERSY Tychyna represents a complicated figure in both a political and academic sense. Many Ukrainian exile intellectuals and scholars involved in the analysis of Ukrainian literary history could not accept Tychnya's submission to political authority and apparent abandonment of many of his literary companions to the horrors of Stalinism . The true merit of his later poetry has been difficult to judge in such a bitter environment, which is only now relaxing. It also becomes difficult to determine Tychyna's true intent and emotions in such a repressive environment. MAJOR WORKS
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