Ivan Kotliarevsky
Born: 1769-09-09
From: Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
Known For: Writing
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Poet and playwright; the ‘founder’ of modern Ukrainian literature. Kotliarevsky's greatest literary work is his travesty of Virgil's Aeneid, Eneïda, which he began writing in 1794. Eneïda was written at a time when popular memory of the Cossack Hetmanate was still alive and the oppression of tsaris...
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