Maksym Slavinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maksym Slavinsky

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1868

Place of Birth: Stavyshche, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1945

Profession: writer, poet, diplomat, translator

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Maksym Slavinsky (also as Slavynsky Ukrainian: ?????? ????????? ???????????;12 August 1868 in Stavyshche, Kiev Governorate - 23 November 1945 in Kiev) was a Ukrainian journalist, political and public figure, diplomat and statesman.
He was an editor of many newspapers of liberal and pro-Ukrainian disposition in the Russian Empire.
In 1918 Slavinsky was appointed as Minister of Labor, serving in the position for less than a month. Born in the Ukrainian town of Stavyshche of the Kiev Governorate, Slavinsky graduated from the Second Kiev Gymnasium.
During his student years he was a member of the Kiev literary club "Pleyada" where along with Lesya Ukrainka he translated the poetry of Heinrich Heine ("Book of songs").