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Name
  
Ignaty Potapenko

Role
  
Writer

Education
  
Odessa University


Ignaty Potapenko

Born
  
December 30, 1856 Fyodorovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (
1856-12-30
)

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.

English translations

  • The General's Daughter, (novel), T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.
  • A Father of Six, and An Occasional Holiday, (short novels), T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. from Archive.org
  • A Thousand Talents, (story), from Anthology of Russian Literature, Volume 2, Leo Wiener, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903. from Archive.org
  • The Curse of Fame, (story), from Short Story Classics (Foreign) Volume 1, P.F. Collier, 1907. from Archive.org
  • What Dmitro Saw At the War, (story), from The Soul of Russia, W. Stephens, Macmillan and Co. LTD, London, 1916. from Archive.org
  • A Russian Priest, (novel), T. Fisher Unwin, 1916. from Archive.org
  • Dethroned, (story), from Best Russian Short Stories, Boni and Liveright, 1917. from Archive.org

    • References

    Ignaty Potapenko Wikipedia
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