Mykola Tsertelev

Mykola Tsertelev, Tsereteli by his Georgian name, was born in 1790 at Khorol, into a princely family that had come from Georgia. He completed his studies at Moscow University in 1814 and was for a time close to the future Decembrists. For more than ten years, he collected and studied Ukrainian folk poetry. A member of the Free Society of Amateurs of Russian Letters, he received a silver medal from the Academy for his work on the versification of folk songs. He then moved to school administration, in the governorates of Poltava and Tambov, retired in 1861 and died at Morshansk on 20 September 1869.

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• PoetryОпыт собрания старинных малороссийских песнейMykola Tsertelev · 1819not translated into EnglishLiterature