Ivan Karpenko-Kary

Ivan Tobilevych, who signed himself Karpenko-Kary, was born on 29 September 1845 in Arsenivka, in the Kherson governorate, the son of an estate steward. A clerk from the age of fourteen, in 1869 he became secretary of the police in Yelysavethrad, where he acted as an amateur with Marko Kropyvnytsky. Dismissed in 1883 for helping revolutionaries, he joined a troupe, was exiled in 1884 to Novocherkassk and remained under surveillance until 1889. A brother of the actors Mykola Sadovsky and Panas Saksahansky, he acted and directed in their troupes. He died in Berlin on 15 September 1907.

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• TheatreMartyn BoruliaМартин БоруляIvan Karpenko-Kary · 1891LiteraturePublic domain