Christopher Antonovych Blonsky (1893, Horokhiv - December 14, 1971, Myliatyn) was a Ukrainian public and cultural figure, poet, composer, and priest.
He came from the Blonsky family. He was born in the village of Horokhiv (then Volyn Gubernia, now a city and district center of Volyn Oblast, Ukraine).
He studied at the Zhytomyr Gymnasium. After high school, after studying at the seminary for 4 years, he entered the Higher Courses of Polytechnic in Kyiv.
He served in the Baltic Fleet during the First World War and the October Revolution. Since the 1920s, he has lived permanently in what is now the Rivne region (the villages of Kustyn, Mykhalkivtsi, Myliatyn, and the city of Rivne). He was actively involved in cultural education. He created a folk amateur choir in the village of Kustyn, with which he became a laureate at the annual competition of the Volyn Torgy Fair held in Rivne.
In 1942 he was ordained a priest of the UAOC. He received a parish in the village of Mikhalkivtsi. He joined the UPA resistance movement. His home became a cultural center for resistance fighters, where they performed prayer, music (bandura), and poetry. In his old age, he moved to the village of Myliatyn, where he died on December 14, 1971.
He wrote songs in which he expressed the love of a Christian Ukrainian for his native people and his unshakable conviction in the inevitability of restoring the lost statehood. In 1994, a collection of poems and compositions by Christopher Blonsky was published under the title Water from Under a Stone.
