Geo Shkurupiy

Geo Shkurupiy
Geo Shkurupiy
	Photo of 1928
Born	Georgiy (Yuriy) Danylovich Shkurupiy

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Geo Shkurupiy (Ukrainian: Ґео Шкурупій, romanized: Geo Shkurupii) real name: Ukrainian: Георгій Данилович Шкурупій, romanized: Heorhii Danylovych Shkurupii, April 20 1903, Bendery, Bessarabia Governorate — December 8 1937, Leningrad, according to other data — Leningrad region) — Ukrainian writer, poet, screenwriter and journalist. A representative of the panfuturism movement; according to his own definition, "King of Futuroprairies". One of the representatives of the Executed Renaissance.

A victim of Russian occupation terror.

Biography[edit]

He was born in the family of a railway worker and a teacher. He spent his childhood in Podolia. After graduating from the Second Kyiv Classical Gymnasium (1920), he studied at the medical faculty of Kyiv University, where he studied for only one year, at the Kyiv Institute of International Relations^[1]. Then he worked on the railway, as an editor and screenwriter at a film factory and in the editorial office of the newspaper "Bolshevik". He was arrested in Kyiv on December 3, 1934 on charges of belonging to the "Kyiv terrorist organization OUN" (in the materials of the archival case the abbreviation is decoded as "Union of Ukrainian Nationalists"). Two court hearings of the military tribunal took place, at which Shkurupiy categorically denied the charges and even submitted a written statement-complaint about improper methods of investigation.

After the first trial, the case was returned for further investigation. At the second court session of the military tribunal, Shkurupiy again proves his innocence and tries to refute the accusations with concrete arguments. However, on April 27, 1935, he was sentenced to 10 years in labor camps, followed by deprivation of political rights and confiscation of property. He served his sentence in the Solovki concentration camp. The wife of Varvara Bazas fell into the Bolshevik category of "the wife of a traitor to the fatherland." Together with his son George, they were evicted from Kyiv as a family of "enemy of the people" .

On November 25 1937, the "special troika" reviewed Shkurupia's case and sentenced him to death. He was shot on December 8 1937 in Leningrad (according to other data, in Leningrad Region).

In 1957, he was posthumously rehabilitated by the soviet regime itself.

Creativity[edit]

In 1920, Geo Shkurupiy made his debut in the literary and artistic almanac "Grono" with the prose "We" and "In the Time of Great Suffering", and in the following 1921 year he published selection of poems in the almanac "Whirlwind of Revolution". Fascinated by avant-garde art, the writer presents theoretical articles on futurism, participates in literary discussions. Belonged to the literary organizations and groups "Komkosmos" (Kyiv, 1921), "Association of Panfuturists" (Aspanfut; Kyiv, 1921—1924), "Association of Communist Culture" (AsKK, Komunkult ; Kyiv/Kharkiv, 1924—1925), VAPLITE (Kharkiv, 1926—1927), "New Generation" (Kharkiv, 1927—1931). Geo Shkurupiy was a member of the futurist organization "Flamingo".

Shkurupiy's works were published in magazines, newspapers, almanacs: "Whirlwind of Revolution", "Ways of Art", "Globe", "Grono", "Semaphore to the future", "Life and revolution", "New generation", "The Red Way", "Literary Ukraine" and others.

The first collections of his poems are "Psychothesis. The Third Shop Window" (1922) and "The Drum. The Second Shop Window" (1923), written in the style of futuristic poetics^[2]. They are dominated by socio-political themes, which were positively perceived by readers in the era of revolutionary romanticism. However, Shkurupiy's fascination with futurism passed quickly. As early as 1924, he spoke out in favor of uniting his organization with "Gart (literary organization)", supporting the groups of M. Yaloviy and O. Slisarenko, who left the group of M. Semenko.

In 1925, his collection "The Fire of Words" was published, which testified that "futuristic bravado is increasingly turning into neo-romanticism - with its strange mixture of lyricism, sarcasm and a glimmer of the tragic."

In the same year, Geo Shkurupiy makes his debut as a novelist. His book of action-packed short stories "Dragon Conqueror" O. Biletskyi called it an interesting phenomenon in our fiction: "the collection is diverse, talented", although it is overly literate. Other collections of short stories: "The Adventures of Machinist Horn" (1925), "Mongolian Stories" (1930). Collections of poems: "The Sea" (1927), "For Poets-Friends - Contemporaries of Eternity" (1929), the poem "Winter of 1930" (1934); novels: "Doors in the Day" (1929), "Jeanne-Battalionerka" (1930), "Miss Adrienne" (1934). In 1927, the non-fiction collection of pan-futurists "Meeting at the Crossroad Station. A Conversation between the three" was published, co-authored by Geo Shkurupiy, Mikhailo Semenko, Mykola Bazhan. This book was illustrated by V. Tatlin .

In 1930, Geo Shkurupiy headed the Kyiv branch of "New Generation" and became the editor of its printed organ - "[[Avangard (almanac)|Avangard (almanac)" (two issues were published). The film script O. Dovzhenko "Zemlya (film, 1930)" was printed for the first time on the pages of this magazine, a report by Oleksa Vlyzko "Trains are going to Berlin", also poems of I. Malovichko, P. Melnyk, Y. Paliychuk, articles of Kazimir Malevich, and others.

Edition[edit]

Psychothesises. The third shop window. Kyiv, 1922.
Drum. The second shop window. Kyiv, 1923.
Zharyny sliv (Selected poems). Kharkiv, 1925.
The winner of the dragon. Kharkiv, 1925; 2nd ed.: Kharkiv-Kyiv, 1929.
Adventures of the machinist Horn. — Kharkiv, 1925.
Headquarters of death. Kyiv, 1926.
January Uprising. The winner of the dragon. Kyiv, 1928.
For friends, poets, contemporaries, eternity. Kharkiv, 1929.
Doors in a Day. Kharkiv, 1929.
Pathetic night. "Narkom". Kharkiv, 1929; Russian trans. "Narkom" - Kharkiv, 1930.
Terrible moment. Kharkiv, 1929; 2nd edition. Kharkiv-Odesa, 1930.
Ruined captivity. The moon with a gun. Kharkiv-Odesa, 1930.
Zhanna-batalionerka. Kharkiv-Kyiv, 1930.
The Divine Comedy. Kharkiv-Kyiv, 1931.
Novels of our time. Prose. Kharkiv-Kyiv, 1931.
Mongolian stories. Kharkiv, 1932.
Winter 1930. Fragmentary drawings made with poems and prose. Kharkiv-Kyiv, 1933.
Miss Adriena. Kharkiv, 1934.
Staff of death. Kyiv, 1926.

Cinematic activity[edit]

He worked as an editor at film studios in Odesa and Kyiv (films: "Darkness", 1927; "The Adventures of Poltynyk", 1928; "Slander", 1928, also the author of the titles).

According to the film scripts of Geo Shkurupia, the following films were staged: "The Blue Package" (1926, co-author)^[3] and "Spartacus" (1926, co-authored).

Literature[edit]

Kozyr O. V. Geo Shkurupiy in periodicals of the 20s -30s // Ukrainian periodicals: history and modernity. Materials of the jubilee scientific conference. Kharkiv: Kharkiv. state University, 1998. — P. 70—76.
Sulima Mykola. Ukrainian futurism / Mykola Sulima. —Niredgaz: Gyordy Beshshenya Pedagogical Institute, 1996. —256 p.
Yakubovsky Felix. Before "Doors in the Day" (Geo Shkurupiy — from "Psychetosis" to the novel) // Critique — 1929. — No. 5. — P. 45—62.
Ilnytsky Oleg. Ukrainian Futurism (1914—1930)
Yuriy Lavrinenko. Geo Shkurupiy (literary profile) // Lavrinenko Yu. Shot revival: Anthology 1917—1933. — K.: Smoloskip, 2004. — P. 241—243.
Senyk Lubomyr. Prose searches of Ukrainian futurists of the 20s: a "left" novel // Notes of the Scientific Society named after Shevchenko. — Lviv, 1990. — T. SSXHI. Works of a philologist. sections. — P. 123—135.
History of Ukrainian Soviet cinema. In 3 vols. — K.: Naukova dumka, 1986. — Vol. 1. — 247 p.
Screenwriters of Soviet feature films. M., 1972. — P. 419;
Writers of Soviet Ukraine. 1917—1987. K., 1988. — P. 665;
...3 thresholds of death... K., 1991. — P. 464–468;
ALL: Universal dictionary-encyclopedia. K., 1999. — S. 1518;
Shevchenko S.V. Solovetsky Requiem.
"Ivanova N." The 1920s and the Ukrainian avant-garde: art for the masses - from a professional artist // Slovo i Chas. - 2003. - No. 12 - P. 20 — 27.

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[1] "100 years since the birth of the writer Geo Shkurupiy".

[2] "UKRAINIAN FUTURIST NOVEL. M.S. Vaskiv" (PDF).

[3] "Larysa Bryukhovetska. Polish theme in Ukrainian silent cinema".

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