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Volodymyr Samiylenko

Died in 1925

Volodymyr Samiylenko was born on 3 February 1864 in Sorochyntsi, in the Poltava region, the son of a landowner and a former serf, whose name he bore. Educated at the Poltava gymnasium, he studied at the University of Kiev and belonged to the Brotherhood of Taras. A journalist in Kiev from 1905, he later served in the ministries of Education and Finance of the Ukrainian People's Republic, left with his government for Galicia in 1919 or 1920 and returned to Kiev in 1924. A translator of Homer, Dante, Molière and Beaumarchais, he died in Boiarka, near Kiev, on 12 August 1925.

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