- Ivan Kotlyarevsky
Infobox Person
name = Ivan Kotlyarevsky
caption =
birth_date = birth date|1769|8|29|mf=y O.S. (September 9 1769 N.S.)
birth_place =Poltava
death_date = death date and age|1838|10|29|1769|8|29|mf=y O.S. (November 10 1838 N.S.)
death_place =Poltava Ivan Petrovych Kotlyarevsky ( _uk. Іван Петрович Котляревський) (OldStyleDate|9 September|1769|29 August,
Poltava –OldStyleDate|10 November|1838|29 October, Poltava), was a Ukrainian writer, poet and a playwright widely regarded to be the pioneer of the modernUkrainian literature . His epic-style poemEneïda ( _ua. Енеїда, 1798), a parody ofVirgil 'sAeneid , is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in Ukrainian, an everyday language of millions, but officially unrecognized and discouraged from the literary usage in theImperial Russia . His two plays, also living classics, "Natalka Poltavka " (Natalka fromPoltava ) and "Moskal'-Charivnyk" (The Muscovite-Sorcerer) have started the development of Ukrainian national theater and opera. An interesting fact about Kotlyarevsky is his membership in aPoltava freemason lodge "Love for Truth" ( _ua. Любов до істини). [Sliusarenko, A. H.;Tomenko , M. V. "Istoriia Ukrainskoi Konstytytsii," "Znannia," (Ukraine 1993), ISBN 5-7770-0600-0, pg. 38 ]References
External links
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9046133 Ivan Kotlyarevsky] in
Encyclopædia Britannica
* [http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/1_99/eneida.htm Eneyida - a living classic of Ukrainian literature] in "Welcome to Ukraine", 1999, 1
* [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?AddButton=pagesKOKotliarevskyIvan.htm Ivan Kotliarevsky] in "Encyclopedia of Ukraine"
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