Olga Kobylianska was born in 1863 and is one of the first feminists from Ukraine.The feminist movement in Ukraine would not have been possible without Ukrainian writer Olga Kobylianska. In novels and stories, she portrayed the problems of the Ukrainian intellectuals of her generation and formed the view of life in Bukovina, Western Ukraine. She was the first to embrace feminist ideas in Ukrainian literature and to raise the theme of women’s emancipation.Her first novellen were written in German, beginning in 1880. From 1891 she lived in Chernivtsi. Her travels and acquaintance changed her cultural and political outlook, and she became involved in the Ukrainian women's movement in Bukovyna and began writing inUkrainian. Many of her works—including the novels Liudyna (A Person, 1891) and Tsarivna (The Princess, 1895)—have as theirprotagonists cultured, emancipated women oppressed in a philistine, provincial society; semiautobiographical elements and the influence of the writings of George Sand and Friedrich Nietzsche are evident. For most of her life, Olga Kobylianska lived inChernivtsi. Today, in the house where she lived, you can visit the memorial museum.
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