Maternity in Ukrainian Dissent
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2024

Alla Oleksandrivna Hors'ka (1929, Yalta-1970, Vasil'kyv) was a Ukrainian artist and dissident.Hors'ka was born in Crimea but grew up in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in a family employed in the flm industry: her father Oleksandr was a director of various flm studios, while her mother, Olena, worked as a costume designer.Afer World War II, her family moved to Kyiv, where Hors'ka began studying at the Academy of Arts of Ukraine and where, due to her lack of knowledge of the Ukrainian language, sh