Name Maksym Slavinsky Role Journalist | Died November 23, 1945 | |
Maksym Slavinsky (also as Slavynsky Ukrainian: Максим Антонович Славинський ;12 August 1868 in Stavyshche, Kiev Governorate - 23 November 1945 in Kiev) was a Ukrainian journalist, political and public figure, diplomat and statesman. He was an editor of many newspapers of liberal and pro-Ukrainian disposition in the Russian Empire. In 1918 Slavinsky was appointed as Minister of Labor serving it for less than a month.
Born in Ukrainian town of Stavyshche of the Kiev Governorate, Slavinsky graduated from the Second Kiev Gymnasium. During students years he was a member of the Kiev literary club "Pleyada" where along with Lesya Ukrainka he was translating poetry of Heinrich Heine ("Book of songs").
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