Klymentyna Popovych-Boiarska

Klymentyna Karlivna Popovych-Boiarska (Ukrainian: Климентина Карлівна Попович-Боярська; 3 February 1863 – 7 May 1945) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, and elementary school teacher born in Galicia. She was active in the Ukrainian women's movement, and wrote alongside Ivan Franko and Nataliya Kobrynska.

Biography Klymentyna Popovych was born on 3 February 1863 in Veldizh, a Galician town (known as in the Kalush Raion of modern-day Ukraine).

She wrote to, and later studied under, Ivan Franko. The two became close friends and he was an editor for some of her writings. In 1884, Popovych's debut poems—edited by Franko—were published in Zorya (Ukrainian: ).

Popovych wrote about women and the Galician intelligentsia, and these works began to be published in the 1880s. However, she was only one of Franko's lovers out of a group of three women.

Her husband died in 1944 after being shot by the Red Army on their church doorstep. After his death, Popovych moved to the village of Babyntsi in the Ternopil region.

Popovych additionally contributed to the almanac Ukrainian Muse (Ukrainian: ) and the anthology Chords (Ukrainian: ). At one point, she wrote an ethnographic study of Ukrainian embroidery.

Legacy In 1952, academic M. Wozniak published 28 letters sent between Ivan Franko and Popovych in a collection of materials related to Franko. Popovych's poems were also included in a 1968 anthology of Ukrainian women poets.

A memorial plaque was unveiled at the house where Popovych lived in Babyntsi in 1988.