Ivan Kotliarevskyi

Mikhail Ostrogradsky is recorded as having studied under Ivan Kotliarevskyi. The recorded working language is Russian and Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is creative and professional writing, poetry and drama. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are narrative poetry. Works named in the authority record are Eneida. Distinctions recorded are Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class.

• Name — Ivan Kotliarevsky • Born — 29 August 1769 O.S. (9 September 1769 N.S.) • Birthplace — Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) • Died — 29 October 1838 O.S. (10 November 1838 N.S.) • Place of death — Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

Kotliarevsky was born on in the Ukrainian city of Poltava in the family of clerk Petro Kotliarevsky. The Kotliarevskys belonged to the Ukrainian nobility but were not wealthy. They owned a small estate in Poltava and a plot of land nearby. After studying at the Poltava Theological Seminary (1780–1789), he worked as a tutor for the gentry at rural estates, where he became familiar with Ukrainian folk life and the peasant vernacular. He served in the Imperial Russian Army between 1796 and 1808 in the Siversky Karabiner Regiment. Kotliarevsky participated in the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) as a staff-captain, during which the Russian troops laid the siege to the city of Izmail. In 1808 he retired from the Army. In 1810 he became the trustee of an institution for the education of children of impoverished nobles. In 1812, during the French invasion of Russia he organized the 5th Ukrainian Cossack Regiment in the town of Horoshyn (Khorol uyezd, Poltava Governorate) under the condition that it will be left after the war as a permanent military formation. For that he received a rank of major. He helped stage theatrical productions at the Poltava governor-general's residence and was the artistic director of the Poltava Free Theater between 1812 and 1821. In 1818 together with Vasyl Lukashevych, V. Taranovsky, and others he became a member of the Poltava Freemasonry Lodge Liubov do istyny (Love of truth). Kotliarevsky participated in the buyout of actor Mikhail Shchepkin out of the serfdom. From 1827 to 1835 he directed several philanthropic agencies. He died on. Shortly before his death, he released his serfs and distributed his property to relatives and acquaintances. He was buried in Poltava.

Pavlo Petrenko writes that Kotliarevsky's worldview was "guided by moral rather than by sociopolitical criteria, and his sympathy for the socially and nationally oppressed Ukrainian peasantry was subordinated to his loyalty to tsarist autocracy."

The first few stanzas of Kotliarevsky's Eneida were translated into English by Wolodymyr Semenyna and published in the Ukrainian-American newspaper Ukrainian Weekly on 20 October 1933. However, the first complete English translation of the work was published only in 2004 by Ukrainian-Canadian Bohdan Melnyk (translator).

The authorities additionally record the headings Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevskyi, Ivan Kotlyarevskyy, Ivan Kotlyarevsky and Ivan Kotliarevsky. His recorded languages were Russian and Ukrainian.