Mykhailo Starytsky

Mykhailo Starytsky was born on 14 December 1840 in Klishchyntsi, in the Poltava governorate. Orphaned young, he was raised by his uncle, the father of the composer Mykola Lysenko, with whom he later worked in Kyiv. He studied at the universities of Kharkiv and Kyiv and belonged to the Kyiv Hromada. In 1883 he took charge of the first professional Ukrainian troupe and sold his estate in Podolia to keep it going; in 1885 he founded his own troupe with young actors. He left the stage in 1895, also wrote historical novels in Russian, and died in Kyiv on 27 April 1904.

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• TheatreОй не ходи, Грицю, та й на вечорниціMykhailo Starytsky · 1887not translated into EnglishLiterature