
Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Historian, educator, and author Mykola Kostomarov was a leading figure in the Ukrainian national awakening of the nineteenth century, and played an important role in the cultural life of Russia as well. As an ethnographer, he sought to uncover the `mysterious soul’ of the Ukrainian people, and his poetry contributed to the development of a Ukrainian literary language. An outspoken proponent of so...
Historian, educator, and author Mykola Kostomarov was a leading figure in the Ukrainian national awakening of the nineteenth century, and played an important role in the cultural life of Russia as well. As an ethnographer, he sought to uncover the `mysterious soul’ of the Ukrainian people, and his poetry contributed to the development of a Ukrainian literary language. An outspoken proponent of so...