PERSONALITIES OF CARPATHO-RUSYN ORIGIN
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Several works deal with biographies of famous Carpatho-Rusyns (political,
religious and cultural leaders, writers-poets, and scholars). Vasylii Hadzhega
(1864-1938), who himself was probably the most prolific native historian, wrote
about:
- "Mykhayl Luchkai, zhytiepys y tvory" [Mychayl Luchkai, His Life
and Works], Naukovyi zbornyk tovarystva Prosvita, VI (Uzhhorod, 1929),
p.1-128.
Galician Ukrainian Ivan Pan'kevych (1887-1958) answered the question:
- "Khto
buv Ivan Berezhanyn- Mykhailo Luchkai chy Ivan Fogarashii?" [Who Was Ivan
Berezhanyn-Mykhayl Luchkai or Ivan Fogarashii?], ibid., VII-VIII (Uzhhorod,
1931), p.168-188.
See also:
- Dimitri Vergun (1871-1951), A.E. Fentsik i
ego miesto v russkoi literature [A.E. Fentsik and his Place in Russian
Literature], Izdanie kul'turno-prosvietitel'nago obshchestva imeni Aleksandra
Dukhnovicha, No.22, Uzhhorod, 1926;
- Nikolai A. Beskid (1883-1947), Dukhnovichi
[The Followers of Dukhnovych], Homestead,PA, 1924;
- Tamara Baitsura, IUrii
Ivanovych Venelin, Presov, 1970;
- Olena Rudlovchak (b.1919), Iulii
Ivanovich Stavrovskyi-Popradov, Presov, 1984.
Among famous Rusyns of Bachka region, two have been described in the
collection:
- IUlian Tamash (b.1950), Havryil Kostelnyk medzy doktrynu y
pryrodu [Havryil Kostelnyk Between Doctrine and Nature], Novy Sad,
1986;
- IUlyian Kolesar (1927-1992), Maksym Davosyr, uchytel durdovsy:
opysna [Maksym Davosyr, a Teacher at Durdovo: Biography], Montreal,
1976.
Short biography of "the Teacher of Lemkos" was given by: A.S.
Wislocki, "Ivan Jurijevicz Rusenko", Polska Sztuka Ludowa,
XXXIX, 3-4 (Warsaw-Wroclaw), 1985, p.210, while Feofil' Kuryllo (1896-1945) gave
short descriptions of several famous Lemkos in his: "Kratkaia svodka
pisatelei i zhurnalystov na Lemkovshchynie [Short Summary of the Writers and
Journalists in the Lemko Region] ", Naukovo=Literaturnyi Sbornyk
Galitsko-Russkoi Matitsy, VIII (L'viv, 1934), p.22-50.
A number of Rusyn scholars moved to Russia, where they carved out successful
careers. On their lives and activity see:
- Tamara Baitsura (b.1932), Zakarpatoukrainskaiia
inteligentsiia v Rossii v pervoi polovine XIX veka [Transcarpathian
Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Russia during the First Half of the Nineteenth
Century], Bratislava-Presov, 1971.
On the lives of religious leaders of
Carpatho-Rusyns see:
- Michael Lacko (1920-1982), "The Pastoral Activity of
Manuel Michael Olshavsky, Bishop of Mukachevo", Orientalia Christiana
Periodica, XXVII, (Rome, 1961), p.150-161;
- Andrii Shlepetskii (1930-1993), "Mukachivs'kyi
iepiskop Andrii Fedorovich Baczyns'kyi ta ioho poslannia" [The Mukachevo
Bishop Andrii Fedorovych Bachyns'kyi and his Epistles], Naukovyi Zbirnyk
Muzeiu Ukrains'koi Kul'tury u Svidnyku, III (Bratislava-Presov), 1967,
p.223-241;
- Victor Hladyk (1873-1947), Pervomuchennik za Pravoslaviia na
Lemkovskoi Rusi s. Maksim Sandovich [The First Martyr of the Orthodox
Faith in the Lemko Rus' Rev. Maksym Sandovych], n.p., 1942;
- Irynei Nazarko
(1905-1976), "IEpyskop IU.Pelesh-istoryk TSerkvy" [Bishop IUliian
Pelesh-Historian of the Church], Ukrains'kii Istoryk, XVIII (New
York-Toronto, 1981), p.118-127.
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