Dmitriy Vergun (, Dmitriy Nikolayevich Vergun, , Dmytro Mykolayovych Vergun; 1871–1951) was a publicist, journalist, Russian-language poet, and literary historian from Galicia.

Biography

Born in a town of Horodok, Galicia and Lodomeria,

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, in 1899 Vergun defended his doctoral dissertation " Meletius Smotrytsky as western-Ruthenian writer and grammarian" in

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. Vergun learned his "Russian" (Kyivan recension of

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) in the Galician-Ruthenian Elementary also known as "Halytsko-Ruska Matytsia" located in Lemberg (today

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). In 1900-1905 he was publishing in

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a neo-Slavophillic magazine "Slavianskiy vek". The neo-Slavism in

were sponsored by Russian aristocracy, particularly Count Vladimir Bobrinskiy who was financing the magazine "Slavianskiy vek". Vergun also was a member of Galician-Russian Charitable Society (1902-1914) that was financed by the

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. Being a subject of

, yet sympathizing the All-Russian Empire, in 1897 he was arrested. In 1901 in Lemberg Vergun published a collection of poetry in Russian "Red-Ruthenian (Red-Russian) echoes". The Muscovite magazine "Russkaya mysl" (Russian thought) was very a critical of his work and him personally:

''The poetry of Mr. Vergun prove nothing of him except lack of talent and knowledge of the "All-Russian literary language" depsite that already in 1865 Mr. Dielitskiy demonstrated for a Little-Russian to learn Russian in a single moment. For his “sins of youth,” fate really did not “fall in love” with Mr. Vergun and did not “light a fire to write poetry” ... ---- ''Стихи г. Вергуна ничего не доказываютъ, кромъ его бездарности и плохого знания «общерусскаго литературнаго языка», несмотря на то, что еще въ 1865 г. Дѣлицкій показалъ «въ одинъ часъ научится малороссу по русски…». За «грѣхи юности» судьба дѣствительно не «влюбила» г. Вергуна и не «подожгла огня, чтобы писать стихи»…''Русская мысль, — №12, — 1901. Библіографическій Отдѣлъ. — С. 380-382.Вільхівський �олодимир Гнатюк «Москалї» про «москалефила» // ''Лїтературно-Науковий Вістник'', т. 17, — кн. 3. — Львів 1902, — С. 184.

During the ongoing

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, in 1915 in Petrograd (today

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) the Aleksey Suvorin association typography ( Novoye Vremya) published his book "What is Galicia". In 1918-1919 Vergun was teaching Slavic philology in

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and Irkutsk University. Along with Pyotr Gatalak and Dmitriy Markov promoted the idea of Carpathian Russians (Karpatorossy). Due to the

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, 1922-1945 he was teaching Russian language and Slavic Studies in the Prague Higher School. Since 1945 Vergun was a professor at the Houston University. He died in

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Texas in 1951.

Works

Poetry

* Slavic bells * Red Russian echoes. Lemberg, 1901, 1907 * Carpathian echoes. 1920 * Cantata for Gogol Among his poems used to be successful his "Slavic bells" (). Many of his poems converted into songs ("Russian Sokol march" by Vojtěch Hlaváč, "Cantata to Gogol" by Arkhangelskiy, "Go ahead, people of the Red Russia!" by Ludmilla Schollar)

Literary History

* Religious persecutions of Carpathian Russians. Saint Petersburg, 1913 * Yevgeniy A. Fentsik and his place in Russian literature. Uzhhorod, 1926 * Measures of Minister Bachak in suppression of 1849 Carpathian Russian revival with memorandums by Adolf Dobrjanský. Prague, 1938 * Slavic conversations. "Slavic Age", 1900, No. 1, 2, 4 * AI Herzen and the Slavic question. Ibid., 1901, No. 19 * At the crossroads of two cultures: Slavdom from Gdańsk to Trieste. Ibid., 1901, No. 23/24 * Autobiography. In the book: Vergun DN Poems. Lviv, 1901 * Panslavism and pan-Germanism. "Slavic Age", 1903, No. 67, 69, 72 * German "Drang nach Osten" in numbers and facts. Vienna, 1905 * What you need to know about the Slavs. Saint Petersburg, 1908 * Austro-Slavicism and Russo-Slavicism. In the book: Lado. Saint Petersburg, 1911 * Russia and Turkey. Saint Petersburg, 1911 * What is Galicia. Saint Petersburg, 1915 * The latest Carpatho-Russian bibliography. New York, 1920 * Introduction to Slavonic studies. Prague, 1924 * Eight lectures on Subcarpathian Russia. Prague, 1925 * Review of Carpatho-Russian literature. Prague, 1925 * The legend of Fyodor Kuzmich. "Notes of the Russian Historical Society", 1927, vol. 1 * To the historiography of neo-Slavism. In: Proceedings of the IV Congress of Russian Academic Organizations Abroad, Part 1. Belgrade, 1929 * In memory of YA Yavorsky. In: Timeline of the Stauropean Institute for 1938. Lviv, 1938.

References

External links

* Yas, O.V.
Vergun Dmitriy Nikolayevich (ВЕРГУН Дмитро Миколайович)
'. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine 1871 births 1951 deaths People from Horodok, Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Russophiles of Galicia University of Houston Russian propagandists {{Ukraine-bio-stub