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Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky
Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev (russian: link=no, Александр Степанович Афанасьев, 12 March 1817 – 18 September 1875) was a Russian and Ukrainian poet, writer, editor, ethnographer and translator (from Polish and English). In 1853 he started using the pseudonym Чужбинский (Chuzhbinsky) and has been known mostly as Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky since. Afanasyev was born in village Iskovtsy, Lubensky region, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire, now Ukraine. He made his debut as a published poet in 1837 ("The Ring", Кольцо, ''Sovremennik''); his first Ukrainian poem came out in 1841 (Saint Petersburg almanac Ластівка, ''Swallow''). His Ukrainian poems were collected in ''From My Heart'' (Що було на серці) and published in 1855. Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky's two-volume ethnographic work, ''A Journey to the Southern Russia'' (Поездка в Южную Россию, Saint Petersburg, 1861) came as a result of his 1856 jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poltava Governorate The Poltava Governorate (russian: Полтавская губерния, Poltavskaya guberniya; ua, Полтавська Губернія, translit=Poltavska huberniia) or Poltavshchyna was a gubernia (also called a provi |
