Metadata: V. S. Aleksandrov
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Manuscript and Textology Department of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences’ Shevchenko Institute of Literature
- Holding institution (official language):
- Відділ рукописних фондів та текстології Інституту літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України
- Postal address:
- Room 109, 4 Mikhail Hrushevsky Street, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 279-04-88
- Email:
- rukopys@ukr.net
- Reference number:
- F. 22
- Title:
- V. S. Aleksandrov
- Title (official language):
- Александров B.C.
- Creator/accumulator:
- V. S. Aleksandrov
- Date(s):
- 1863/1933
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 170 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fonds include manuscripts of poetic translations and transpositions from the Bible: “Tykhomovni spivy na sviati motyvy” (“Quiet Melodies on Sacred Subjects,” 1892), and pieces from the Books of Job (1877) and Tobit (1881), with accompanying notes by the translator); of the manual A Self-Guided Grammar of the Hebrew Language (1882-84); and the author’s proof copy of a translation of the Book of Psalms (Khar’kov, 1882).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian writer, folklorist, and publisher Vladimir Stepanovich Aleksandrov (1825-1893) was born in the village of Bugaevka (Izium county, Khar’kov province; now Bugaїvka/Bugaevka, Kharkiv/Khar’kov region). He studied at the Khar’kov Theological Seminary, and graduated from Khar’kov University Medical School in 1853. He was the first editor of the Ukrainian literary almanac Skladka (1887, 1893). His writings began to be published in 1861. He wrote lyric poetry and works of drama, and translated literary works into Ukrainian, including canonical Biblical texts. He died in Khar’kov.
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aleksandrov, Vladimir Stepanovich
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds’ inventory and card file are structured by document type (literary genre); and within sections, materials are alphabetised by name and title (with correspondence alphabetised by addressee/correspondent name).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary