August 29 [September 9] – the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright and founder of new Ukrainian literature – Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevsky.
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Ivan Kotlyarevsky was born in Poltava in 1769 into the family of Kotlyarevsky, a noble Cossack senior officer. Ivan's father - Petro Kotlyarevsky – held the office of Chancellor at the Poltava City Magistrate. Mother – Paraskeva Lavrentievna Zhukovskaya – daughter of the hundredth Cossack from Reshetilovka. His paternal grandfather was a deacon at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Poltava.
In 1796-1808 he served in the military in the Seversky Carabinier Regiment. In 1806-1807, Ivan Kotlyarevskyy took the military rank of Staff-Captain in the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812, and participated in the siege of Izmail. He was awarded the Order of Saint Anne of the 3rd Degree for his diplomatic merits during negotiations with the Budzhaks and his courageous courier activities at the forefront during the storming of this fortress. In 1808 he resigned. From 1810 he worked as a superintendent of the House for the upbringing of the children of the poor nobles.
1812, during the march of Napoleon I Bonaparte to Russia, I.P. Kotlyarevsky, with the assistance of the Ukrainian Governor-General Yakov Lobanov-Rostovsky, who received a corresponding order from the emperor, formed the 5th Ukrainian Cossack Regiment (provided that the regiment will be retained as a permanent goat after the war is over) in Poltava Region for which he received the military rank of major. In 1816-1821 he was the director of the Poltava Free Theater.
In 1818, together with Vasily Lukashevich, Volodymyr Tarnovsky and others, he was a part of the Poltava Masonic Lodge "Love for Truth". Member of the Free Society of Russian Literature Lovers since 1821. According to the Decembrist Matthew Muravyov-Apostle, who he gave during the investigation into the Decembrists, he is a member of the Little Russian Secret Society. The committee of inquiry left it unattended. Ivan Kotlyarevsky contributed in 1822 to the ransom of the serfdom of Ukrainian and Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin. And in 1827–1835 he was the curator of “godly” establishments.
Genius died on October 29 (November 10), 1838, at the age of 69. He was buried in Poltava. Since I. Kotlyarevsky did not have a family, Motron Efremovna Veklevichyev became his heir and mistress of the estate.
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