Oleksa Storoshenko

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Oleksa Storoshenko

Oleksa Petrowytsch Storoschenko ( Ukrainian Олекса Петрович Стороженко ; born November 12, jul. / 24. November  1805 greg. In Lyssohory , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † November 6 jul. / 18th November  1874 greg. In Brest , Grodno , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright, and expert on ethnography, as well as an investigative criminalist.

Life

Oleksa Storoshenko came from the Cossack family Storoshenko, known since the seventeenth century . He spent his childhood in Velyki Budyschtscha near Dykanka in the Poltava Governorate . Between 1821 and 1823 he attended the boarding school of the Sloboda-Ukrainian provincial high school in Charkiw , where he took subjects such as Russian, French, German, Latin, Russian literature, general and Russian history and geography. Between 1824 and 1850 he served, most recently as a high officer in the cavalry corps staff, in the Russian army , where he took part in the Russo-Turkish War , the November Uprising of 1830/1831 and the Hungarian Revolution , where he was wounded. From 1850 he went into the bureaucratic service and was appointed by the Kiev Governor General Dmitri Bibikow for special tasks. In 1868 he was retired with the rank of State Councilor and settled on a farm in the village of Trischyn ( Трішин ) near the Belarusian city of Brest, where he pursued his interest in sculpture, music and painting and held the post of aristocratic marshal . In 1874 he fell into cold water on a late October evening and died at the age of 58. He was buried in the city cemetery in Brest.

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Storoshenko wrote first in Russian and published his works from 1850 in the magazines Nördliche Biene ( Северная пчела ) and Library for Reading ( Библиотека для чтения ). In 1857 he published the novel chronicle Gemini Brothers ( Братья-близнецы ) and in 1858 he published, among other things, the stories of the way of life of Little Russian farmers ( Рассказы из крестьянского быта малороссия ).

Storoshenko began writing in Ukrainian in the magazine Basis ( Основа ) in 1861. In 1863 he published the two volumes of his work Ukrainian History in St. Petersburg , which he had already written in the 1850s. Storoshenko wrote 14 works in Russian and 26 in Ukrainian. The basis of his works were often Ukrainian folklore, folk legends, anecdotes and proverbs, as well as stories based on ethnographic and historical material.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Oleksa Storoschenko ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on libruk, Ukrainian electronic library; accessed on August 4, 2016 (Ukrainian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / libruk.in.ua
  2. ↑ a b c biography of Oleksa Storoshenko on "Ukrainian Center"; accessed on August 4, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b biography of Oleksa Storoshenko on parta.com.ua; accessed on August 4, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ [dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/471662/Кавалеры bearer of the Order of St. George, 4th grade] on dic.academic, accessed on August 4, 2016 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Storoshenko, Oleksa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Стороженко, Олекса Петрович (Ukrainian); Storoshenko, Oleksa Petrowytsch (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyssohory , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1874
Place of death Brest , Grodno Governorate , Russian Empire