Мақсым Рыльський: өмірі мен шығармашылығының шолуы

Rylsky did not return to Kyiv until 1923, where he initially worked as a teacher.

Rylsky began writing poetry at a young age. His debut poem was published in 1907 in the newspaper "Rada", and his first collection, "At White Isles" (На білих островах), was released in 1910. By 1918, his poems "Tsarevna", and "On the Edge of the Forest", as well as his collection "Beneath Autumn Stars", demonstrated that his period of apprenticeship and "voice sampling" had passed. His 1922 collection, "Blue Distance", confirmed this. Throughout the 1920s, he continued to write numerous poems. During this time, Rylsky published several collections of poetry, including "Through Storm and Snow" (1925), "The 13th Spring" (1926), "Where Roads Meet", and "Hum and Rumbling" (both 1929). In the latter collection, Rylsky also demonstrated his skill as a translator of world poetry, including works by Paul Verlaine, Valery Bryusov, Stéphane Mallarmé, Maurice Maeterlinck, and others. One notable translation was of Adam Mickiewicz's "Pan Tadeusz". As a representative of the "pure art" doctrine, Maksym Rylsky was active during the years when the Stalinists adopted the official doctrine of "socialist realism". In 1937, he was involved in rewriting the libretto of Mykola Lysenko's opera Taras Bulba, and later returned to neo classical forms. Rylsky is one of the most outstanding Ukrainian poets of the 20th century and a master of the modern sonnet and the long narrative poem. He was closely associated with the Neoclassicist group of Ukrainian poets. They employed traditional poetic forms with rhyme and meter, wrote in a clear and accessible contemporary idiom, and often referenced Ancient Greek and Roman mythology, as well as numerous other authors from world literature, in their poetry. During the wartime period, he wrote two masterful long poems that deviated from socialist realism: "Thirst" (1942) and "Journey to Youth" (1941 4), for which he was again publicly chastised. In 1942, he became the Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, Folklore, and Ethnography in Kyiv, a post he held until his death in 1964. The Institute now bears his name. He published about 30 collections of original poetry during his lifetime, as well as numerous translations and scholarly works. By 1974, almost five million copies of his works, in the original or in translation, had been published in the USSR. Rylsky became a member of the Communist Party in 1943 and was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1946.

Rylsky was a translator with knowledge of 13 languages and the ability to translate from 30 languages. He specialized in translating from French, Polish and Russian.