Levko Borovykovsky

Levko Borovykovsky was born in 1806, or in 1808 according to other sources, in the village of Meliushky, in the district of Khorol. He learned to read at home, passed through the gymnasium of Poltava and completed his studies at the University of Kharkiv in 1830. He first wrote in Russian, then switched to Ukrainian in 1829. He taught in Kursk, then at the institute for young noble ladies in Poltava from 1839, and became an inspector of gymnasia in 1852. To him we owe ballads, fables, translations of Horace, Pushkin and Mickiewicz, a dictionary and folklore collections. He died in his native village in 1889.

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