Mykhailo Petrenko

Mykhailo Petrenko was born in 1817, probably in Sloviansk, where his father, a minor official of noble family, served at the town hall. He completed his studies at the University of Kharkiv in 1841 and belonged to the town's Romantic circle. He entered the Kharkiv criminal chamber in 1844 and was appointed district prosecutor at Lebedyn in 1849, where he remained until his death on 25 December 1862, carried off by a fever. No portrait of him has survived.

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• PoetryДивлюсь я на небоMykhailo Petrenko · 1841not translated into EnglishLiterature