Tereshchenko, Mykola

Tereshchenko, Mykola [Терещенко, Микола; Tereščenko], b 13 September 1898 in Shcherbynivka, Zolotonosha county, Poltava gubernia, d 30 May 1966 in Kyiv. Poet and translator. His first published work appeared in 1918. He belonged to Hrono, Komunkult, Zhovten, and the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers and edited the journal Zhyttia i revoliutsiia. His collections of poetry include Laboratoriia (The Laboratory, 1924), Kraïna roboty (The Land of Work, 1928), Ryshtuvannia (Scaffolding, 1930), Poryv (Impulse, 1932), Poemy (Poems, 1935), Divchyna z Ukraïny (A Girl from Ukraine, 1942), Verba riasna (The Fulsome Willow, 1943), Uzhynok (Reaped Grain, 1946) and Sertse liuds'ke (The Human Heart, 1962). He translated verse and drama, particularly from French (Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Victor Hugo, E. Poitier, Louis Aragon, Prosper Mérimée, and others) and published the anthology Suzir’ia frantsuz'koï poeziï (A Constellation of French Poetry, 2 vols, 1971). He also translated the works of Adam Mickiewicz and of Russian and Belarusian poets.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]