Amvrosiy Metlynsky

Amvrosiy Metlynsky was born in 1814 in the village of Sary, in the Poltava region, into a family of small landowners. He graduated from Kharkiv University in 1835 and stayed there, defended his master's thesis in 1839, and taught Russian literature in Kharkiv, then in Kyiv, where he became a doctor, and again in Kharkiv until 1858. He signed his verse Amvrosiy Mohyla and spent his life collecting village songs. Ill, he left the university, lived in Geneva and in Crimea, and took his own life in Yalta in July 1870.

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• PoetryДумки і пісні та ще дещоAmvrosiy Metlynsky · 1839not translated into EnglishLiterature