Vasyl Stus Collection

Vasyl Stus was an iconic figure of the human rights movement in Soviet Ukraine and one of the leading Ukrainian poets of his generation. Volumes of his poetry circulated widely through samizdat in the 1960s-1980s. While conducting searches, the KGB would find his works in the homes of every writer, artist, chemist, and human rights activist, whose activities were cause for concern. As with many writers, Stus’s struggle with the Soviet regime, particularly his brutal incarceration and torture in a Soviet prison camp, which led to his death in 1985, have in many ways overshadowed his human and artistic legacy. The Vasyl Stus Collection at the T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature in Kyiv was donated by the Stus family after Ukrainian independence in 1991, with the aim of popularizing and making more accessible his writings. These materials include previously unknown works, volumes of Stus’s vast correspondence, as well as fragments of writings that survived his imprisonment in strict-regime hard labor camps in Mordovia and Perm.

瓦西里·斯托斯是苏联乌克兰人权运动的一位标志性人物，同时也是他那一代中最杰出的乌克兰诗人之一。在 1960 年代至 1980 年代，他的诗作通过地下出版物广泛流传。在进行搜查时，克格勃会在每个作家、艺术家、化学家和人权活动家的家中发现斯托斯的著作，他们的活动引起了当局的担忧。与许多作家一样，斯托斯与苏联政权的斗争，尤其是他在苏联监狱营中的残酷监禁和折磨，最终导致了他在 1985 年的去世，这在许多方面掩盖了他的人文和艺术遗产。基辅 T. H.谢甫琴科文学研究所的瓦西里·斯托斯收藏是由斯托斯家族在 1991 年乌克兰独立后捐赠的，旨在普及和使其作品更加易于获取。这些材料包括之前未知的作品、斯托斯广泛的书信集，以及他在摩尔达维亚和佩尔姆严苛劳改营中的写作片段。