Mariia Biletska Explained

Mariia Biletska
Birth Date:1864
Birth Place:Ternopil
Death Place:Lviv
Known For:a leader of the Ukrainian women's movement
Nationality:Ukrainian

Mariia Biletska, sometimes Maria Biletska (1864 – 30 December 1937) was a Ukrainian teacher. She ran a house in Lviv, where students could stay. She was a leader of the women's movement.

Life

Biletska was born in 1864 in Ternopil.

In 1899, she and Hermina Shukhevych ran the Institute of St. Olga. The institute provided a place for girls to live while they attended education in Lviv. About half of these girls came from peasant families.[1]

In 1912 she attended a meeting organised by Konstantyna Malytska for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were Olena Zalizniak (1886-1969), Olena Stepaniv and Olha Basarab. The money raised from the "National Combat Fund", they recommended, was used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. Stepaniv would serve in that group as a rifleman.[2]

She became the Chair of the Ukrainian Women's Union in 1921 for a year. The following year, she left the St Olga Institute. From 1925 to 1926 she was caring for people with disabilities.[3]

Biletska died in Lviv in 1938.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bohachevsky-Chomiak . Martha . Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939 . Bochachevsky-Chomiak . Martha . al-Taharrur (Jerusalem) . 61. al-Sabil, al-Markaz al-Maskuni li-Lahut . Studies . Canadian Institute of Ukrainian . 1988-10-12 . University of Alberta Press . 978-0-920862-57-5 . en.
  2. Web site: Wolynetz . Lubow . 2015 . The Role of Dedicated Ukrainian Women in World War I . 4 March 2022 . Ukrainian Museum Library of Stamford.
  3. Web site: Білецька Марія Іларіонівна — Енциклопедія Сучасної України . 2022-03-07 . esu.com.ua.