Mykola Markevych

The young Mykola Markewytsch

Mykola Markevych in old age

Mykola Andriyovych Markewytsch ( Ukrainian Микола Андрійович Маркевич , Russian Николай Андреевич Маркевич Nikolai Andreyevich Markewitsch ; born January 26 ^{. Jul} / 7. February  1804 ^greg. In Dunajez , Ujesd Hlukhiv , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † June 9 ^jul. / 21 . June  1860 ^greg. in Turiwka , Ujesd Pryluky , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire) was a ukrainian -Russian historian, ethnographer, writer, composer and musicologist.

Life

Mykola Markewytsch came as the son of the landowner and diplomats Andrij Iwanowytsch Markewytsch ( Андрій Іванович Маркевич ) and Countess Anastasia Wassyliwna Hudowytsch in Dunajez ( Дунаєць ) in today's Rajon Hlukhiv Ukrainian Sumy scion of an ancient Ukrainian Cossack family to the world. He received private lessons from 1814 to 1817 from Pavlo Bilezkyj-Nossenko ( Павло Павлович Білецький-Носенко , 1774-1856) on his estate in the village of Lapynzi ( Лапинці ) near Pryluky . He then studied from 1817 to 1820 at the boarding school of the Pedagogical Institute in Saint Petersburg , where he made friends with Michail Glinka and maintained good relationships with him for a long time. Other fellow students and friends included Jewgeni Baratynski , Anton Delwig and the future Decembrists Wilhelm Küchelbecker and Kondrati Rylejew .

In February 1820 he left boarding school and joined the Dragoon Kurland Regiment of the Russian Army . On June 18, 1821 he became a cadet and on April 22, 1822 he was promoted to ensign. Until the beginning of 1824 he served as a lieutenant in the dragoon regiment , which he then left at the insistence of his father and settled on the family estate in the village of Turiwka.

In 1829 he went to Moscow for a year , where he studied piano and composition with John Field . Here he also met Adam Mickiewicz , Alexander Pushkin , Iwan Kirejewski and Nikolai Jasykow . In 1840 he came to Saint Petersburg and joined the circle around Karl Brjullow and Nestor Kukolnik . He maintained relationships with many well-known Ukrainians such as Ossip Bodjanski , Nikolai Gogol , Jewhen Hrebinka , Ivan Kotljarewskyj , Mychajlo Maxymowytsch and Taras Shevchenko , whom he met on April 27, 1840. In May 1840, on the eve of his departure from Saint Petersburg, he wrote the poem “Н. Маркевичу “(in German: M. Markewytsch ). It is believed that the poetry of Markevichenko had a significant influence on Shevchenko, especially on his early works such as "Perebendja" ( Перебендя ) and "Do Osnovyanenka" ( До Основ'яненка ).

In 1857 Markewytsch traveled to Italy for treatment via Cracow, where he was elected a member of the Cracow Scientific Society . Otherwise, he lived on his property in Turiwka in Ukraine today Rajon Zghurivka in Kiev Oblast , where he died 56 years old. He was buried in the family crypt of the All Saints Church on the right bank of the Perevid ( Перевід ), opposite the village of Turivka.

Family coat of arms of the Markewytsch family

family

Markewytsch was the husband of Ulyana Alexandrovna Rakowitsch (1809-1893), daughter of a university rector, whose sister was the wife of the famous Russian writer Pavel Annenkow . Mykola Markewytsch was the father of twelve children, including the ethnographer, lawyer and musician Andrei Nikolajewitsch Markowitsch .

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1829 were its collections Elegii i ewreiskije melodii (elegies and Jewish melodies) and Stichotworenija erotitscheskije i Parisina (erotic poems and Parisina) and in 1831 his collection of romantic ballads about the heroic past of the Ukraine, Ukraynskye melodyy ( Украинские мелодии to German Ukrainian melodies ) in Moscow released. In 1836 he published the first volume of a historical, mythological and statistical dictionary of the Russian Empire.

His main work was the 5-volume “History of Little Russia ” (1842–1843, Moscow). It presented the history of Ukraine from antiquity to the end of the 18th century, in particular the development processes of Ukrainian statehood and law. The first two volumes were a compilation of the "History of the Rus ". This work had a strong influence on 19th century Ukrainian historiography and his romantic contemporaries, especially his friend Taras Shevchenko. Among the more extensive of his ethnographic works is his work on folk customs, folk beliefs and traditional food and drink of the Little Russians (1860) as well as compilations of Little Russian (1840) and South Russian (1857) folk songs. His personal archive, including his diary, is kept at the Institute of Russian Literature in Saint Petersburg. His valuable annotated collection of 6,550 documents from the 16th to 18th centuries is in the State Library in Moscow. Russian nationalists referred to Markevych as “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists”. Much of his work was not published, his work was banned by Soviet censors.

Web links

Commons : Mykola Markewytsch  - Collection of Images

• Entry on Nikolai Andrejewitsch Markewitsch in Brockhaus-Efron (Russian)
• Mykola Markewytsch on ukrainians-world (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} VI. Generation - Mykola Markewytsch on petrichenko.info ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (Russian)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Entry on Mykola Markewytsch in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Entry on Mykola Markewytsch in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (English)
4. ↑ Mykola Markewytsch on t-shevchenko.name ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Mykola Markewytsch on nekropole.info ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (Ukrainian)
6. ^ Entry on Mykola Markewytsch in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on April 29, 2018 (Ukrainian)