Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovianenko

Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovianenko was born on 29 November 1778 in Osnova, today part of Kharkiv, into a family of the Ukrainian nobility. At twenty-three he entered the Kuriazh monastery as a novice and left it after ten months. He was behind the Kharkiv theatre, founded in 1812, of which he was the first director, and supported an institute for girls. Marshal of the nobility of his district from 1816 to 1828, he presided over the Kharkiv criminal chamber from 1840. He died in that city on 20 August 1843.

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• TheatreСватання на ГончарівціHryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovianenko · 1836not translated into EnglishLiterature