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Ivan Kotliarevsky

Died in 1838

Ivan Kotliarevsky was born in Poltava on 9 September 1769, into a family of impoverished minor nobility. He studied at his town's seminary from 1780 to 1789, then was a private tutor in the countryside, where he learned the speech of the peasants. He served in the imperial army from 1796 to 1808 and took part in the war against the Turks that began in 1806. He then ran a boarding school for sons of poor nobles, raised a Cossack regiment against Napoleon in 1812, directed the Poltava theatre until 1821 and oversaw the town's charitable institutions from 1827 to 1835. He died in Poltava on 10 November 1838.

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