Ivan Kotlyarevsky

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Ivan Kotlyarevsky
Born August 29, 1769 O.S. (September 9, 1769 N.S.)
Poltava
Died October 29, 1838 O.S. (November 10, 1838 N.S.)
Poltava

Ivan Petrovych Kotlyarevsky (Ukrainian: Іван Петрович Котляревський) (b. 9 September 1769 [O.S. 29 August], Poltava - d. 10 November 1838 [O.S. 29 October], Poltava), was a Ukrainian writer, poet and a playwright widely regarded to be the father of the modern Ukrainian literature. His epic-style poem Eneïda (Ukrainian: Енеїда, 1798), a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in Ukrainian, an everyday language of millions, but officially unrecognized and discouraged from the literary usage in the Imperial Russia. His two plays, also living classics, Natalka-Poltavka (Natalka from Poltava) and Moskal'-Charivnyk (The Muscovite-Sorcerer) have started the development of Ukrainian national theater and opera. An interesting fact about Kotlyarevsky is his membership in a Poltava freemason lodge "Love for Truth" (Ukrainian: Любов до істини).[1]

The first edition of Kotlyarevsky’s Eneyida.
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The first edition of Kotlyarevsky’s Eneyida.
Ukrainian coin commemorating Kotlyarevsky's Eneyida.
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Ukrainian coin commemorating Kotlyarevsky's Eneyida.

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  1. ^ Sliusarenko, A. H.; Tomenko, M. V. Istoriia Ukrainskoi Konstytytsii, "Znannia," (Ukraine 1993), ISBN 5-7770-0600-0, pg. 38

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