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He started writing in 1865. His works appeared in Kievan and Galician publishing houses and periodicals such as Rada, Pravda, Dilo, and Zoria magazines. His bibliography [uk] includes social and popular history novels, dramas, comedies, and fairy tales. Among his most famous works are the novel Kaidash's Family (1878) and the comedy At Kozhumyaky (1875), which was later remade into the play Chasing Two Hares by Mykhailo Starytsky. In 1961 the play was adapted as a popular comedy movie of the same name.
Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky died of hunger and illness on 2 April, 1918 in one of almshouses of Kyiv during the First World War.[2] He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.[3]
Novels by Ivan Levytsky. Volume 1. Kaidash's Family. – Kiev, 1887
Krutikova, N. Tvorchist' I.S. Nechuia-Levyts'koho (Kyiv 1961)
Ivanchenko, R. Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi: Narys zhyttia i tvorchosti (Kyiv 1980)
Tarnawsky Maxim, The all-encompassing eye of Ukraine: Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's realist prose, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2015, 384 pp., ISBN9781442650084 (in English)
Screen adaptations
Kaidash's Family (1993–1996) — a 2-episode mini-series directed by Volodymyr Horodko for the Kozak Consortium.
To Catch the Kaidash (2020) — a 12-episode television series based on Kaidash's Family novel, adapted by Natalka Vorozhbyt and produced by STB channel.
