People
Petro Hulak-Artemovsky
1790–1865 · Poet, rector of Kharkiv University
Petro Hulak-Artemovsky taught at Kharkiv University and was its rector (1841–1849).
Tales
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топонимXIX век · Центр
THE AUTHOR OF "FAUST"—FOR KHARKIV
Oddly, Kharkiv has streets named for Darwin and Shakespeare, and until recently Byron—men who never heard of our city—yet no Goethe Street, though the great thinker, writer, and scholar…
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анекдотXIX век · Харьков
FOR THE VOTES
"To the choirmaster of the Court Chapel, travel money for three to Poltava: for him, his assistant Palagin, and Gulak-Artemovsky, a student dismissed from Kyiv seminary"—so runs a record…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
THE GENTLEMAN AND THE DOG
Pyotr Petrovich Gulak-Artemovsky was a well-known writer of his day. He translated from Polish and French and wrote lyric poetry, but his original fables in…
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топонимXIX век · Центр
ON THE LOVER'S TRAIL
In the town of Bakhmut (now Artemivsk) in Donetsk region lived a couple with four children—all sons. Their tutor was Kharkiv student Pavel Zavadsky. The mother, E. S. Garshina, fell in love with the student…
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топонимбез даты · Центр
CAFÉ “GRAVE”
Showing up one morning at a construction site with crowbars and shovels, students found a hand-written poster: “Please leave us here! Cemetery old-timers.” The history of any city is its burials…”
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топонимначало XX века · Центр
FIVE FROM THE PAWNSHOP
As is well known, in December 1917 a congress in Kharkiv proclaimed Ukraine a Republic of Soviets. Half a century later, to honor the event, the city’s central square was renamed Soviet Square (now Constitution Square…”
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