Mykola Voronyi


Mykola Kindratovych Voronyi was a Ukrainian writer, poet, actor, director, and political activist. He acted in the troupes of Marko Kropyvnytskyi and the Ruska Besida Theatre. Voronyi was a founding member of the Central Rada of Ukraine. He was also a founder of the Ukrainian National Theater in 1917.
In 1938 he was executed by the NKVD troika on accusations to belong to the Ukrainian militarist and nationalist organization.