Опыт биографии Н. В. Гоголя: Со включением до сорока его писем

by Panteleimon Kulish, Nikolai Gogol, Library of Congress (Creator)

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228 pages, Hardcover

Published August 27, 2016

About the author

Prominent Ukrainian writer, historian, ethnographer, and translator. He was born into an impoverished Cossack-gentry family. After completing only five years at the Novhorod-Siverskyi gymnasium he enrolled at Kiyv University in 1837 but was not allowed to finish his studies because he was not a noble. He obtained a teaching position in Lutsk in 1840. There he wrote his first historical novel in Russian Mykhailo Charnyshenko, or Little Russia Eighty Years Ago (2 vols, 1843). Mykhailo Maksymovych promoted Kulish's literary efforts and published several of his early stories. His first longer work written in Ukrainian was the epic poem Ukraina (1843). In 1843–5 Kulish taught in Kiyv and studied Ukrainian history and ethnography. There he befriended Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Kostomarov, and Vasyl Bilozersky; their circle later became the nucleus of the secret Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Panteleimon Kulish was the first person known to translate the whole of the Bible into the modern Ukrainian language and was also the first to write historical novels in Ukrainian. His most famous contribution in this field was the novel Chorna Rada (The Black Council) which was set in Cossack times. Kulish was also active in historical writing, composing a brief history of Ukraine in verse (under the title Ukraina) and a much larger History of the Reunification of Rus in three volumes. The latter dealt with the era of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the seventeenth century. His two-volume collection of Ukrainian folklore, Notes on Southern Rus retains its scholarly significance to the present day.

Український письменник, поет, драматург, фольклорист, етнограф, мовознавець, перекладач, критик, редактор, видавець. Автор першої фонетичної абетки для української мови, що попри низку внесених до неї змін лежить в основі сучасного українського правопису. Відомий найбільше як автор першого україномовного історичного роману «Чорна рада».
Першим його літературним твором була оповідка «Циган», яку він витворив із почутої від матері народної казки.
Писав гумористичні оповідання:"Циган", "Пан Мурло", "Малоросійські анекдоти"; оповідання на тему нещасливого кохання: "Гордовита пара", "Дівоче серце"; історичні оповідання: "Мартин Гак", "Брати", "Січові гості"; та багато інших творів, зокрема: "До кобзи", "Заворожена криниця", "Маруся Богуславка", та інші.
Переклав Біблію, майже всього Шекспіра, Ґете, Дж. Байрона (зокрема, поеми «Чайльд-Гарольдова мандрівка», «Дон-Жуан»), балади А. Міцкевича «Русалка», «Химери», «Чумацькі діти» (опубліковано в журналі «Основа» 1861 р.). Наприкінці свого життя П. Куліш підготував до друку поетичну збірку «Позичена кобза: Переспіви чужоземних співів», котра вийшла в Женеві 1897 р., вже по смерті поета.