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Ivan Rudchenko

Died in 1905

Ivan Rudchenko was born on 2 September 1845 in Myrhorod, the son of a district Treasury accountant. Entering the offices young, he was in 1863 an official of the Poltava chamber of finance, then from 1864 attended courses at the University of Kiev, in the circle of Drahomanov and Antonovych. A folklorist, translator and critic, he wrote with his younger brother a novel printed in Geneva in 1880. An official in Zhytomyr, Vitebsk and Kherson, then on the council of the Ministry of Finance, he died in Petersburg on 1 October 1905.

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