Metadata: Panas Mirnyi
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. 5
- Title:
- Panas Mirnyi
- Title (official language):
- Панас Мирный
- Creator/accumulator:
- Panas Mirnyi
- Date(s):
- 1862/1964
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 1,514 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Manuscripts of works by Panas Mirnyi housed in the fonds include the novella For Water (1883; written jointly with I. Ia. Rudchenko); the story “Zhydivka” (“The Jewish Woman”) [1868…1870]; the satirical stories “Prypovist’ ob tim, iak zhyd izdyv na dvorianakh tudy, kudy tsar pishky khodyv” (“The Parable about How the Jew Rode Noblemen Where the Tsar Walked on Foot,” undated) and “The Kahal (undated); an imitation of The Song of Songs (“Suchasna pisnia nad pisniamy,” undated); a Ukrainian translation of The Song of Songs (as “Solomonova Pisnia nad pisniamy,” undated); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian writer, translator, and public figure Panas Mirnyi (a pseudonym; actual full name Afanasii Iakovlevich Rudchenko) (1849-1920) was born in the city of Mirgorod (Poltava province; now Myrhorod/Mirgorod, Poltava region). He graduated from the Gadiach County School in 1862. From 1871 on, he lived and worked in Poltava, first as an accountant for the provincial treasury, and subsequently in various posts at the local revenue chamber. His writings began to be published in 1872. His best-known work is Khiba revut’ voly, iak iasla povni? (Do Oxen Bellow When the Manger is Full?, 1880), written jointly with his brother I. Ia. Rudchenko (pseudonym: Ivan Bylik). He died in Poltava.
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bylik, Ivan
- Mirnyi, Panas
- Rudchenko, Afanasii Iakovlevich
- Rudchenko, I. Ia.
- Subject terms:
- Bible
- Literature
- Manuscripts
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds’ inventory and card file are structured by document type (literary genre), and within sections, arranged alphabetically by name and title (with correspondence alphabetised by addressee/correspondent name).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary