Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych was a Ukrainian theater and public figure, engineer, inventor, writer, historian, translator, ethnographer, art critic, playwright, screenwriter, composer, musicologist, violinist, pianist, baritone, bandurist, and teacher. Having suffered repressions at a young age during the occupation of Ukraine by the Russian Empire, 30 years later he was shot by the Russian terrorist organization KGB during the Great Terror on the territory of Ukraine.
