Veronika Chernyakhivska

Veronika Chernyakhivska
Вероніка Черняхівська
Chernyakhivska in the 1920s
Born
Вероніка Олександрівна Черняхівська
Veronika Oleksandrivna Chernyakhivska

25 April [O.S. 8 May] 1900
Died22 September 1938(1938-09-22) (aged 38)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Occupations
Spouse(s)
Theodor Hecken
(m. 1928)

Mykola Hansha
(m. 1938)
Parents
RelativesMariia Starytska (aunt)
Oksana Steshenko (aunt)
Ivan Steshenko (uncle)
Yaroslav Steshenko (cousin)
Mykhailo Starytsky (grandfather)
Mykola Lysenko (great-uncle)

Veronika Oleksandrivna Chernyakhivska (Ukrainian: Вероніка Олександрівна Черняхівська); 25 April [O.S. 8 May] 1900 – 22 September 1938 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian poet and translator. Executed during the Great Purge, Chernyakhivska is considered a part of the Executed Renaissance.