Mykola Holubets

Mykola Holubets (; 15 December 1891 – 22 May 1942) was a Ukrainian historian, archivist, local historian, art historian, poet, prose writer, publicist, editor, translator, and bibliographer.

Biography He was born on 15 December 1891 in Lviv. He was the illegitimate child of the priest Bohdan Eliashevskyi, the parish priest of the village of Zashkiv (Lviv Oblast), and Mariia Holubets, who was a servant in his house.

He graduated from the Lviv Academic Gymnasium and the Kraków Academy of Arts. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Lviv and at the University of Vienna.

Journalistic work As a researcher of the history of Ukrainian art and the history of Ukraine, Lviv, and the region, he was the author of 84 books and brochures, and over 1500 articles. He also published a series of brochures and articles about Ukrainian artists including Oleksandr Arkhypenko (1922), Taras Shevchenko (1924), Luka Dolynskyi (1924), Petro Kholodnyi (1926), Mykhailo Havrylko, Lev Gets (1934), Teofil Kopystynskyi, Olena Kulchytska, Yurii Narbut, Oleksa Novakivskyi, Ivan Trush, and Pavlo Kovzhun (1939). During the 1920s he worked Worked closely with archaeologist, archivist and art historian Bohdan Yanush.

He also wrote guides to cities and villages including Lviv (guidebook, 1925), Lavriv (1926-1927), Belz, Buzke, Zvenyhorod (1927), Przemyśl, Terebovlia (1928), Sokal (1929), Zhovkva and medieval Halych (1937). In the poems "Apostrofa," "Mykhailovi Yatskovu", and others, the poetic cycle "Vesnyani Vody," and the dramatic scene "Stricha" from the collection "Poeziyi", motifs of defiance against a difficult fate and the desire for social and spiritual harmony prevail.

Known for his prose works: the novella "Liudy i Blazni" (1927), sketches "Hei, Vydno Selo" (1934), and historical novels "Zhovti Vody" (1937) and "Plemia Chingiskkhana" (1938). He translated individual works by Gerhart Hauptmann ("The Sunken Bell"), Henrik Ibsen ("Peer Gynt", translated by Holubets as "Per Hint", 1921), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (an excerpt from the fifth act of "Faust", 1937), Oscar Wilde, and others (unpublished). His renditions of Heinrich Heine's works were published in periodicals.

Main works Українське мистецтво: Вступ до історії (Ukrainian Art: an introduction to History). — Львів, 1918. Історія української культури (розділ «Мистецтво»). — Львів, 1937. Жовті Води: Історичний роман. — Львів, 1937; перевидано 1997. Плем'я Чингізхана: Хроніка XII в. — Львів, 1938. Голубець М. Павло Ковжун / Микола Голубець. — Львів: б. в., 1939. — 31 с.

Family Mykola Holubets was the first husband of (sister of Lesia Bachynska), who, after his death, married Samiilo Pidhirskyi. Lesia was shot by the Gestapo for her connection with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and subsequently, their daughter with Mykola, Nana, and her husband were also killed. Natalia Yakhnenko describes this in her memoirs: "God granted that no one from our family perished upon the return of the Bolsheviks. It was different for Samiilo Pidhirskyi's family: in the last weeks in our city, his wife Lesia, Mrs. Dontsova's sister, was shot by the Gestapo for her connection with the UPA, and then her daughter Nana from her first marriage to M. Holubets, and her husband".

Mykola Holubets is the father of Zenon Holubets, a sculptor and painter from Lviv.