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Ivan Kotliarevsky

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Known For: Writing
Birthday: 1769-09-09
Place of Birth: Poltava, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]
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Also Known As: Ivan Kotliarevskyi, Ivan Kotlyarevskyy

Biography: 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...