Mykola Markevych (; 7 February 1804 – 21 June 1860) was a Ukrainian

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, musician and poet of Ukrainian

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descent, who was known as a friend of

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

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and

Kondraty Ryleyev Kondraty Fyodorovich Ryleyev (, , – ) was a Russians, Russian poet, publisher, and a leader of the Decembrist Revolt, which attempted to overthrow the Russian monarchy in 1825. Early life Ryleyev was born in the village of Gatchinsky Distric ...

. His main work is the ''

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'' (in 5 vols.), which was published in

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between 1842 and 1843.

History

Mykola Markevych was born in Dunaiets,

Chernigov Governorate Chernigov Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. It was officially created in 1802 from the disbanded Little Russia Governorate (1796-1802), Little Russia Governorate and had its capital in Cher ...

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(now located in modern-day

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) on 7 February 1804. He studied at the

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Pedagogical Institute from 1817 to 1820. Then he studied piano and

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. He served as an officer in the

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from 1820–1824. Markevych collected many historical materials on Cossack history and Ukrainian

folk songs Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has be ...

at his estate and around the area of

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. He wrote many works on Ukrainian folk customs and beliefs, as well as foods. He also wrote extensively on

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, most notably on

Yakov Barabash Yakiv Fedorovych Barabash () died in September 1658) was a Zaporozhian Cossack Kish otaman, Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky. In 1657 he and Poltava polkovnyk Martyn Pushkar led a pro-Tsardom of Russia, Muscovy revolt against V ...

and

Martyn Pushkar Martyn Pushkar (; died 1 June 1658) was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader. From 1648 he was polkovnik of Poltava regiment. After Bohdan Khmelnytsky's death, Pushkar, being one of the senior colonels in the Hetman State, was considered a candid ...

. His works influenced his friends

and

as well as

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

. He died in Turivka,

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on 21 June 1860. Many of his works have not been published. His personal archive and diary are kept at the Institute of

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References

External links

* ''Косачевская '
Н. А. Маркевич, 1804—1860
— Л. : Изд-во ЛГУ, 1987. — 284 с. Composers from the Russian Empire Poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire 1804 births 1860 deaths People from Sumy Oblast Ethnographers from the Russian Empire 19th-century composers 19th-century poets {{Ukraine-historian-stub