Mykola Ustyianovych

Mykola Ustyianovych was born in 1811 in Mykolaiv, in Galicia, the son of the town's burgomaster. He was schooled in Lviv, graduated from the Greek Catholic seminary in 1838 and was for a long time a mountain parish priest in Slavsko. In 1848 he was one of the initiators of the congress of Ruthenian scholars, where he defended the spoken language as a literary language, and he directed a Lviv newspaper in the wake of the revolution. He later drew closer to the Russophile current. Having left for Bukovina in 1870, he was parish priest in Suceava until his death in 1885.

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