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Slovanský ostrov, Nové Město
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Ivan Franko

Іван Якович Франко - Ivan Yakovych Franko

Nahuievychi, Austria-Hungary 1856 - Lemberg / L'viv 1916
Ukrainian poet, writer, and philosopher; author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language; studied in Vienna
(Wikipedia)
T. Konstantinová-Amortová
1956

Praha /  Ivan Franko   Praha /  Ivan Franko

Description

Red marble commemorative plaque with a portrait medaillon of Ivan Franko.

Inscription(s)

ivan franko
*1856 †1916


velký syn ukrajinského lidu,
básník – revoluční demokrat
promluvil zde na sjezdu
slovanské pokrokové mládeže
18.5.1891.

ВЕЛИКИЙ СИН УКРАЇНСЬКОГО НАРОДУ
ПОЕТ – РЕВОЛЮЦІЙНИЙ ДЕМОКРАТ

ІВАН ФРАНКО
*1856   † 1916


ВИСТУПАВ ТУТ З ПРОМОВОЮ НА І З'ЇЗДІ
СЛОВ'ЯНСЬКОЇ ПРОГРЕСИВНОЇ МОЛОДІ
18 ТРАВНЯ 1891 РОКУ


zbudováno péčí slovanského výboru čsr 1956
IVAN FRANKO
*1856 †1916


A great son of the Ukrainian people,
a poet and revolutionary democrat
spoke here at the congress
of the Slavic Progressive Youth
on 18 May 1891.
[Ukrainian text]: A great son of the Ukrainian people
a poet and revolutionary democrat

IVAN FRANKO
*1856 † 1916

delivered a speech here at the first congress
of slavic progressive youth
18 May 1891

Erected by the Slavic Committee of the ČSR in 1956

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