Petro Hulak-Artemovsky

Petro Hulak-Artemovsky was born in 1790 in Horodyshche, the son of an Orthodox priest. He studied for a few years at the Kyiv academy without completing his studies, then was a tutor in noble households in Volhynia, where he gained an ear for peasant speech. Enrolled in 1817 as an auditor at the University of Kharkiv, he taught Polish there from the following year, defended a master's thesis in 1821 and became professor of history and geography in 1825. Three times dean, he was rector from 1841 to 1849, with the rank of actual state councillor. He died in Kharkiv in 1865.

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• PoetryПан та собакаPetro Hulak-Artemovsky · 1818not translated into EnglishLiterature