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Panteleimon Kulish

Died in 1897

Panteleimon Kulish was born in 1819 in Voronizh, into an impoverished Cossack family. In 1837 he entered the University of Kyiv, where he could not complete his studies because he was not of noble birth, then taught in Volhynia and in Kyiv and studied the history and customs of the country. Arrested in Warsaw in 1847 for belonging to the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, he spent two months in prison and three years in exile in Tula, forbidden to write. Back in Petersburg, he founded a Ukrainian printing house there, fixed the spelling that bears his name and translated the Bible and Shakespeare. He died in Motronivka in 1897.

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