Name Ignaty Potapenko Role Writer | Education Odessa University | |
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Died May 17, 1929, Saint Petersburg, Russia Books The General's Daughter, Sekretar' ego prevoshoditel'stva, A Father of Six, and an Occasional Holiday, Ne geroj, Shestero |
Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko (Russian: Игна́тий Никола́евич Пота́пенко, December 30, 1856 – May 17, 1929), was a Russian writer and playwright.
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Biography
Potapenko was born in the village of Fyodorovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) where his father was a priest. Potapenko studied at Odessa University, and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His first works were tales of Ukrainian life. He's best known for his novel A Russian Priest (1890), published in Vestnik Evropy (Herald of Europe). His works include novels, plays, and short stories.
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