Petro Drahomanow

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Petro Jakymowytsch Drahomanov ( Ukrainian Петро Якимович Драгоманов , Russian Пётр Якимович Драгоманов Pёtr Jakymowytsch Drahomanov * June 29 jul. / 11. July  1802 greg. In Mali Budyschtscha , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , † September 1860 in Hadiach , Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian poet and translator.

Life

Petro Drahomanow was born in what is now Hajach Rajon in the Ukrainian Oblast of Poltava, the son of a military treasurer. He studied law in Saint Petersburg and worked there from 1817 in various positions in the public service. Between 1828 and 1832 he worked for various Russian-language almanacs and magazines, in which he published his own poems as well as translated works, poems and prose. In 1836 he retired with the rank of Коллежский асессор Kolleschski Assessor and returned in 1838 to Ukraine. From 1840 to 1844 he was assistant to a regional court, later he worked as a private lawyer. In contrast to his daughter Olena Ptschilka, who wrote her poems in Ukrainian, he wrote in Russian “because of the father's long stay in Saint Petersburg,” as his daughter said.

family

Petro Drahomanov was the husband of Jelysaweta Drahomanowa ( Єлизавета Драгоманова ), born Zjazka ( Цяцька ; 1821-1895), with whom he had three sons and three daughters, including the historian and political thinker Mykhailo Drahomanov and writer and mother of Lesya Ukrainka , Olena Ptschilka . Petros brother was the Decrembrist and poet Jakow Akimowitsch Dragomanow ( Яків Акимович Драгоманов Yakiv Drahomanow , 1801-1840).

Web links

  • Image of Petro Drahomanow on the website of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine - State. scientific-pedagogy. Library of Ukraine

Individual evidence

  1. a b Entry on Petro Drahomanow in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 17, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  2. Lesja Ukrainka: Roots of the Family, Roots of the Spirit in day.kyiv.ua of June 5, 2004; accessed on April 17, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. Short biography Jakow Akimowitsch Dragomanow in the Dekabristenlexikon; accessed on February 6, 2017