Amvrosy Metlinsky (, ,

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: ''Amvrosii Metlynskyi''; 1814 in Sary,

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– 29 July 1870 in

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) was a Ukrainian

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and panslavist. Professor at the Imperial University of Kharkov. Metlinsky was a professor of

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from 1843 to 1849, and again from 1854 to 1858. From 1849 to 1854 he was a professor at

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. During the 1830s, the city of

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became the center of Ukrainian

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. Metlinsky and other authors such as

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and Nikolay Kostomarov published

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materials, native interpretations of Ukrainian history, and collections of folk legends and

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s.''Ukrainian literature.'' (2009). In

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/ref> In 1839, he published a collection of poetry called ''Dumky i pisni ta shche deshcho'' (''Thoughts and Songs and Some Other Things'') under his pseudonym Amvrosii Mohyla.''Metlynsky, Amvrosii''.

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. vol. 3, 1993. In 1848, he published an anthology of works by other Kharkiv poets called ''Iuzhnyi russkii sbornik'' (Southern Russian Anthology). Metlinsky's poetry contains his

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for the glories of the Ukrainian Cossack past, which he believed were destined never to return. He described his poetry as ''"the work of the last

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who passes on the song of the past in a dying language"''. He did not believe in the possibility of a renaissance of the Ukrainian people, which led him to embrace Pan-Slavic unity and to place hope in

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.Petrenko, Pavlo. ''Kharkiv Romantic School''

. vol. 2, 1989. His nostalgia prompted him to collect Ukrainian folk songs which he published in 1854. The most part of this collection was previously unpublished. In his autobiography,

Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky (; – 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century. Hrushevsky is ...

mentions collections of Ukrainian folk songs published by Metlinsky as works that influenced him.Plokhy, Serhii. ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History''. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2005. pg 26

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