Peter Gulak-Artyomovsky: teacher, rector and writer
Many years of teaching work in the masterly estates of Right-Bank Ukraine gave Peter Gulak-Artyomovsky very much. First of all, he perfectly allowed him to learn Polish and French, learn good manners, get to know the "right" people. Among them are Count Pototsky, trustee of Kharkov University. He invited Peter Gulak-Artemovsky to Kharkov. There he became a volunteer at the university. Two years later - a teacher.
During the years 1817-1865 he lived in Kharkov. Survived the ups and downs of scientific and teaching career. 8 years was the rector of the university. He came to honorable resignation with many awards - numerous orders of the Russian Empire, the civil rank of a state councilor.
They recall him as a sleek gentleman with many rings on both hands. The famous historian Nikolai Kostomarov, who studied at Kharkov University and lived with Pyotr Gulak-Artyomovsky, talks about him sparingly.
“Our museum has an exhibition dedicated to Pyotr Petrovich Gulak-Artyomovsky, which is always visited with interest by visitors,” says Alla Sukhoruchenko, director of the Gorodishchensky museum. - The museum funds are also constantly replenished with exhibits about an outstanding fabulist and scholar. Of course, if he is sufficiently respected in his hometown, the question remains open. Speaking of the same streets and schools.”
Peter Gulak-Artyomovsky wrote many fables, parables, poems, epistles and ballads. The fable "Pan and the Dog" is one of the sharpest works of Ukrainian literature of the XIX century - about the struggle against serfdom. From 1817 it was published in the journal Ukrainian Herald. He published translations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Milton, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Horace, and others.
During the years 1817-1865 he lived in Kharkov. Survived the ups and downs of scientific and teaching career. 8 years was the rector of the university. He came to honorable resignation with many awards - numerous orders of the Russian Empire, the civil rank of a state councilor.
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They recall him as a sleek gentleman with many rings on both hands. The famous historian Nikolai Kostomarov, who studied at Kharkov University and lived with Pyotr Gulak-Artyomovsky, talks about him sparingly.
“Our museum has an exhibition dedicated to Pyotr Petrovich Gulak-Artyomovsky, which is always visited with interest by visitors,” says Alla Sukhoruchenko, director of the Gorodishchensky museum. - The museum funds are also constantly replenished with exhibits about an outstanding fabulist and scholar. Of course, if he is sufficiently respected in his hometown, the question remains open. Speaking of the same streets and schools.”
Peter Gulak-Artyomovsky wrote many fables, parables, poems, epistles and ballads. The fable "Pan and the Dog" is one of the sharpest works of Ukrainian literature of the XIX century - about the struggle against serfdom. From 1817 it was published in the journal Ukrainian Herald. He published translations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Milton, Adam Mickiewicz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Horace, and others.
