Bohdan Andriiovych Tchaikovsky (29 February 1888, Berezhany - 1941, Lviv) was a Ukrainian lawyer, editor, publicist, conductor, and public figure. Son of Andrii Yakovych and Nataliia, brother of Andrii and Mykola Tchaikovsky.
Biography.
He studied at gymnasiums in Berezhany (from 1898; here he was a member of the secret circle "Young Ukraine", editor of the humorous weeklies "Mukha", "Mitla", "Baba") and Przemysl (now Poland; 1906), at the Faculty of Law of the University of Krakow (Poland), and received his doctorate at Lviv University.
He worked as a lawyer in Sokal (now Lviv region),
In 1918-1919, he was the executive editor of the weekly Naddnistrianski Visty. He moved to Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), where he was the editor of the ZUNR's Bulletin of State Laws.
1920 - lawyer in the cities of Kolomyia (now Ivano-Frankivsk region), Belz, the town of Pidbuzh (now Drohobych district), and from 1925 - in Sokal (all now Lviv region). Head of the Prosvita Society (1932-1937), organiser of reading rooms and libraries, conductor of the city choir, which performed in the villages of the county, organiser of extracurricular education.
From 1931 he collaborated with the Sokal monthly "Zmiannia", from 1936 to 1938 - with the fortnightly "Holos zad Bugu". His articles and legal research were published in the Lviv magazines "Amateur Theatre", "Life and Knowledge", "Library Adviser", and the newspapers "Dilo" and "Vpered" (all in Lviv).
1928-1930 - initiator and participant of cultural and educational conferences in the settlements of Sokal district.
In 1935, Tchaikovsky was arrested by the police on suspicion of involvement in the OUN, and later released. In the mid-1930s, he created and headed the Sokalshchyna Museum named after A. Tchaikovsky at the branch of Prosvita.
In July 1940, he moved with his family to Zboisky (now part of Lviv); he worked as a researcher at the Ukrainian Ethnographic Museum in Lviv. In June 1941, Tchaikovsky was arrested by the NKVD after they found materials related to the Liberation Movement hidden by Bohdan Andriyovych in the Sokalshchyna Museum.
He died of torture in Lviv's Bryhidky, and was buried on 2 July 1941 at Lychakiv Cemetery, field 70.
