Vasylyi Puhovkyn-Dneprovskyi

Vasylyi Puhovkyn-Dneprovskyi

He was born in the USSR to believing parents. His father came to faith and was baptized in a Baptist church in 1943 under the Germans. His mother came from a family of Molokans. She believed and was baptized after the war. The author says about himself: “Since childhood, I remember meetings and conversations of my parents with Christians of various denominations. Disagreements never turned into discord and broken relationships. I didn’t write poems in school. I always took my poems seriously. The poems matured along with me. I sent poems to Moscow to the Evangelical Christian Baptist church for a collection of Christian poems in 1992. They praised them and said that works for the first collection had already been selected. That was the end of it. I have several specialties. I changed jobs more than once. I worked mostly as a refrigerator train mechanic. Most of the poems were written during trips. Now I am a Ukrainian pensioner. If anyone is interested, the pension is 1712 hryvnias ($61.14). Thank God, this doesn’t interfere with the poems. I am married, have a daughter and three sons, five grandchildren.”