Sytnyk (Mykhailo) Papers

The Mykhailo Sytnyk papers focus on the life and activities of the Ukrainian poet Mykhailo Vasylovych Sytnyk (1919-1959; pseudonym: Mykhailo Chmuryj).  He published his poetry in a number of Ukrainian journals, as well as in several poetry collections: Vid sertsia (1942), Novi obrii (1942), Vidlitaiut’ ptytsi (1946), and Zaliznychyi storozh (1947), the last a narrative poem about wartime Ukraine.  The papers include correspondence with family members and Volodymyr Vynnychenko, photographs, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings.