unemployed. In 1934 someone tried to kill him by pushing him under the wheels of a train. As a result, he was hospitalised for a period with moderately severe injuries to his leg. In February 1938, during the Great Purge, he was arrested and tortured. In 1938 an NKVD tribunal in Kharkiv sentenced him to be shot and his property confiscated. The execution was carried out on 8 October 1938 and his body was buried in a mass grave on the outskirts of Kharkiv. Soviet sources initially falsely stated that he was sent to Siberia for 10 years without the right to correspond. False death certificates were issued to state that he died in 1943. Postmortem Khotkevych was politically rehabilitated by the Soviet government in 1956; however, only a small part of his literary output was republished. In 1977, despite being on a UNESCO list of noted cultural figures to be commemorated, nothing was published. In post-1991 Ukraine numerous works by this author have been republished and many manuscripts have found their way from the archives into publications due mainly to the efforts of the Khotkevych foundation in Kharkiv. In 1989 a film was made after the Khotkevytch book Kaminna dusha''. directed by Stanislav Klymenko. A documentary about Khokevych's life "Sledovat' na sever mozhet'" was made in 1991. See also Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble References 1877 births 1938 deaths Writers from Kharkiv People from Kharkov Governorate Ukrainian composers Kobzarstvo Ukrainian male short story writers Ukrainian short story writers Soviet art historians Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Ukrainian people executed by the Soviet Union Ukrainian language activists Ukrainian ethnographers Ukrainian music educators Soviet rehabilitations Executed Ukrainian people Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute alumni Ukrainian novelists Ukrainian people of Polish descent Musicians from Kharkiv Writers from the Russian Empire