Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko , born December 30, 1856 – died May 17, 1929, was a Russian writer and playwright.

Biography

Potapenko was born in the village of Fyodorovka, Kherson Governorate

Kherson Governorate

The Kherson Governorate or Government of Kherson was a guberniya, or administrative territorial unit, in the Southern Ukrainian region, between the Dnieper and Dniester Rivers, of the Russian Empire. It was one of three governorates created in 1802 when the Novorossiya guberniya was abolished...

, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (now Ukraine

Ukraine

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) where his father was a priest. Potapenko studied at Odessa University

Odessa University

The I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University , located in Odessa, Ukraine, is one of the country's major universities. It was founded in 1865, by an edict of Czar Alexander II of Russia, reorganizing the Richelieu Lyceum of Odessa into the new Imperial Novorossiya University. In the Soviet...

, and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory

Saint Petersburg Conservatory

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. His first works were tales of Ukrainian

Ukrainians

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 life. He's best known for his novel A Russian Priest (1890), published in Vestnik Evropy

Vestnik Evropy

Vestnik Evropy was the major liberal magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia; it lasted from 1866 to 1918....

 (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

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