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In 1897, while being treated in Yalta, Lesya Ukrainka met Serhiy Merzhynsky, an official from Minsk who was also receiving treatment for tuberculosis. That meeting played an important role in life of a poetess. Her feelings for Merzhynsky were responsible for her showing a different side of herself. Examples include "Your Letters Always Smell of Withered Roses," "To Leave Everything and Fly to You," and "I'd Like to Wind Around You Like Ivy," and others which were unpublished in her lifetime and were dedicated to Serhiy Merzhynsky ... Dramatic poem "Oderzhyma" ("The Possessed") she wrote in one night in January 1901 in Minsk at the bedside of hopeless sick Serhiy Merzhynsky.
In 1897, while being treated in Yalta, Lesya Ukrainka met Serhiy Merzhynsky, an official from Minsk who was also receiving treatment for tuberculosis. That meeting played an important role in life of a poetess. Her feelings for Merzhynsky were responsible for her showing a different side of herself. Examples include "Your Letters Always Smell of Withered Roses," "To Leave Everything and Fly to You," and "I'd Like to Wind Around You Like Ivy," and others which were unpublished in her lifetime and were dedicated to Serhiy Merzhynsky ... Dramatic poem "Oderzhyma" ("The Possessed") she wrote in one night in January 1901 in Minsk at the bedside of hopeless sick Serhiy Merzhynsky.