Ivan Karpenko-Karyi
Native name
Іван Карпенко-Карий
Born(1845-09-29)29 September 1845
Arsenevka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Died15 September 1907(1907-09-15) (aged 61)
Berlin, German Empire
Pen nameHnat Karyi, K. Adamenko
OccupationPlaywright, actor, theater worker
LanguageUkrainian
NationalityUkrainian
Period1884–1907
GenreComedy, tragedy, drama
Literary movementRealism
Spouse
Nadiia Tarkovska
(m. 1870; died 1881)
    Sofiia Tarkovska
    (m. 1883)
    ChildrenMariia Tolievych Kresan
    RelativesKarpo Tolievych (father)

    Ivan Karpovych Tobilevych,[1] (Ukrainian: Іва́н Ка́рпович Тобіле́вич, pronounced [iˈwɑn ˈkɑrpowɪtʃ tobiˈlɛwɪtʃ]; Russian: Ива́н Ка́рпович Тобиле́вич, tr. Ivan Karpovich Tobilevich, IPA: [ɪˈvan ˈkarpəvʲɪtɕ təbʲɪˈlʲevʲɪtɕ]; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1845  15 September [O.S. 2 September] 1907) known by his pseudonym Karpenko-Karyi,[lower-alpha 1] (Ukrainian: Карпе́нко-Ка́рий, pronounced [kɐrˈpɛnko ˈkɑrɪj]) was a Ukrainian writer, playwright, actor, and erudite. He was designated as one of the luminaries of Ukrainian domestic theatre.

    Born and raised in the village of Arsenivka, he was the brother of Mykola Sadovskyi, Panas Saksaganskyi, and Maria Sadovskyi-Barilotti. In 1870, he married Nadia Tarkovskyi. His works began in 1883 when he wrote Novobranets. The following year he was exiled to Novocherkassk, where he wrote his first drama. Back to Ukraine, and in the last stage of his life, he went to Berlin, where he died in 1907.

    His works are eighteen plays,[2] including satiric comedies such as The Wise Man and the Fool, Martyn Borulia, Hundred Thousand, and The Master. While The Vagabond, The Status Seekers, The Servant Girl, The Fortuneless Maiden, The Father's Tale, and Along the Dnieper are his dramas. Also the historical ethnographic plays, including A Madcap of the 18th Century and Sava Chalyi.

    Biography

    Tobilevych was on 29 September 1845, at Arsenevka, a village near Yelisavetgrad. He was in the family of the estate manager, Karp Tobilevich. He studied at the Bobrynetsky District School, and from 1859 he worked as a bailiff's clerk in the town of Mala Vyska and later as a clerk of the city administration. He worked in the county court in 1864.

    Moved to Yelisavetgrad in 1865, he worked as the head of the district police department, participated in amateur performances by Oleksandr Tarkovsky, published literary and critical articles, and later became a member of the illegal Narodovo circle of Opanas Mykhalevych. In 1870, he married Nadia Tarkovsky, the aunt of city poet and journalist Arsenyi Tarkovskyi. As a dowry, he received the Tarkovskys' family farm, and they had seven children. Nadia died in 1881, and his daughter, Halyna, died in the following year.[3] In 1883, he was dismissed from the post of police secretary and exiled for supplying revolutionaries with passports.

    His first role in performance began in the 1880s when he played in the troupe of Marko Kropyvnytsky. He published his first story in Ukrainian, "Novobranets", in the almanac "Rada", signed under the pseudonym Hnat Kariy, in 1883.

    Arrested in 1884, he was exiled to Novocherkassk, where he worked as a blacksmith and later opened a bookbinding workshop. During his exile, he wrote his first drama, Shepherd (Burglaka), as well as the plays Bondarivna, Wise Man and the Fool, Naimichka, and Talentless. In 1886, a collection of his dramas was published in Kherson, including Bondarivna, Who is guilty? and Reasonable and Fool. After he was released in 1887, he returned to Ukraine with his wife, Sofia, and settled on a farm that was named after his first wife, Nadia. Today, the village is a historical and cultural reserve.

    His drama, Naymichka, was published in 1887, and Martin Borulya in Zora in 1892. In 1888, public supervision over him was removed, and he joined the troupe of his brother, Mykola Sadovskyi, and later the troupe of another brother, Panas Saksaganskyi.[2] The virtues of his dramas are liveliness, the integrity of characters, and well-chosen language. In 1890, he joined the Society of Ukrainian Artists and wrote the comedy Hundred Thousand.

    He wrote a note to the Congress of Stage Actors in Moscow that was dedicated to the persecution of the Ukrainian theatre, which Panas Saksaganskyi read from the podium of the congress. In 1899, he wrote the historical tragedy Sava Chaly, dedicated to the events of the 18th-century in Haydamak's region.

    He fell ill in 1906, left the stage, and went to Berlin for treatment. After a serious illness, Tobilevych died on 15 September 1907 in Berlin. His remains were brought back to Ukraine and buried at the Nadezhda Farm.

    Notes

    1. His pseudonym, Karpenko-Karyi, is derived from the name of his father, Karpo, and his favourite literary character, Hnat Karyi, who is the hero in Taras Shevchenko's play, Nazar Stodolia.

    References

    Citations

    1. "Ivan Karpenko-Kary". Myslene Drevo. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
    2. 1 2 "Karpenko-Kary, Ivan". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
    3. Володимир Панченко. Він був одним із батьків українського театру… // День. — 2004. — 2 лип. (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2010-10-26. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
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