Fedir Steshko
Fedir (Khvedir) Steshko (4 September 1877, Kamianka, Chernihiv region — 31 December 1944, Prague) was a Ukrainian musicologist, civic and cultural figure and military officer. He began his musical education at the age of seven at the parish school of the Kyiv Theological Seminary, sang in the bishop's choir of St Michael's Monastery, and studied at the Kyiv Seminary and at a private school where Mykola Lysenko taught. He led the Ukrainian community of Vladivostok and was military secretary of the Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic. He was a colonel of the UPR Army and head of the cultural-educational department of the UPR Army General Staff. In 1922 he moved to Prague in connection with the creation of the Ukrainian Free University. He headed the chair of music history at the Drahomanov Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute, sat on the editorial board of the journal Ukrainian Music and researched church music of Transcarpathia. He wrote The First Ukrainian Music Prints (Prague, 1929). He died in Prague.Collection6