Krynytsia publishing house

Krynytsia publishing house (Криниця; Well). Publishing company operating in Kyiv in 1912–14 and 1917–20. By 1914 it had published a series of inexpensive books such as Mykhailo Drahomanov’s Chudats'ki dumky pro ukraïns'ku natsional'nu spravu (Eccentric Thoughts on the Ukrainian National Cause) and Shevchenko, ukraïnofily i sotsiializm (Shevchenko, the Ukrainophiles, and Socialism), and a complete edition of Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar. The publishing house was closed down at the beginning of the First World War. It was revived in 1917 and in the next three years it issued numerous books on various subjects. Its publications included works by Ivan Karpenko-Kary, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Oleksander Oles, Hrytsko Chuprynka, and Stepan Vasylchenko, textbooks, children’s books, and the Muzychna biblioteka (Music Library) series edited by Oleksander Koshyts. During the period of Ukrainian struggle for independence (1917–20) Krynytsia acquired its own printing press and bookstore. The company was abolished by the Bolsheviks in 1920.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]