Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka had three siblings.

She looked like her father.

Lesya, like her father, had a gift for languages and mathematics. 

Olena Pchilka had an important role in giving Lesya education.

Lesya composed her first poem at the age of 13. 

It was her mother who offered Lesya to take a pen name. 

Lesya travelled because she wanted to develop her outlook. 

She enjoyed learning new people, new traditions. 

Ukrainka met Serhiy Merzhynsky in Georgia.

The feelings to Merzhynsky were the starting point of writing the dramatic poem "The Possessed". 

Ukrainka married Merzhynsky in 1907.

Lesya died in Ukraine.