Marko Kropyvnytskyi

Marko Kropyvnytskyi was born on 22 May 1840 in Bejbaïraky, in the Kherson governorate, the son of an estate steward from a noble family. A court clerk at Bobrynets and then at Yelysavethrad, he acted for ten years as an amateur with Ivan Tobilevych before moving in 1871 to the professional theatre, in Odessa. In 1882, he founded at Yelysavethrad the first professional Ukrainian troupe of Russian Ukraine, with Maria Zankovetska and Mykola Sadovsky. The author of some forty plays, he died on 21 April 1910 on the train between Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, where he was buried.

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• TheatreГлитай, або ж ПавукMarko Kropyvnytskyi · 1882not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain