Matwij Jaworskyj

1885–1937 (age 52)

literary scholar/critic

Biography

Matwij Jaworskyj (1885–1937) was a literary scholar and critic whose academic work contributed to the study and interpretation of literature in the Soviet Union. His scholarly pursuits reflected the intellectual ferment of early Soviet academic life.

Jaworskyj was executed at Sandarmokh in 1937 during the Great Purge, which devastated Soviet academic and cultural institutions. His death represented the loss of a dedicated scholar during one of history's darkest periods of intellectual persecution.

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