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Panas Myrny and Ivan Bilyk

Died in 1920

The Rudchenko brothers were the sons of an accountant at the district Treasury in Myrhorod. The elder, Ivan, born in 1845, entered the Treasury service young and signed Ivan Bilyk: a folklorist, ethnographer, translator and critic, he published collections of folk tales and songs, and died in Petersburg in 1905. The younger, Panas, born in 1849, signed Panas Myrny; a civil servant all his life, he reached in 1914 the rank of actual state councillor and did not want his pseudonym to be linked to his name during his lifetime. He died in Poltava in 1920.

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