Black page of Ukrainian history

Abstract

Maria Stepanovna Krushelnytska (maiden name - Sloboda) entered the history of Ukrainian culture as a dramatic actress, publicist, memoirist, editor and novelist, public figure. Published in the newspapers "Bukovyna" and "Dilo", almanacs, magazines "Literary-scientific bulletin", "New ways", "New house". He participated in the publication of reading books, the organization of theater groups and cultural and educational institutions. She promoted the idea of ​​women's emancipation, in particular, in the almanac "Women's Fate" (Kolomyia, 1928) she published an article "New Woman", in which she set out her thoughts on a new type of Ukrainian woman. But her fate is the personification of the difficult fate of the Ukrainian intelligentsia during Stalin's repressions. After all, almost the entire family of Maria Krushelnytska was shot by the NKVD and became a symbol of the most brutal tragedy of Ukrainians.