Lesya Ukrainka (Ukrainian: Леся Українка; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Ukrainian: Лариса Петрівна Косач; b. Novohrad-Volynskyi, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire, 1871 – d. 1913, Surami, Georgia ) was one of Ukrainian literature’s foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays, an active political, civil, and feminist activist. She traveled all over Europe and spent her last years in Georgia and Egypt.
