Dmitriy Vergun (russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Вергун, Dmitriy Nikolayevich Vergun, uk, Дмитро Миколайович Вергун, Dmytro Mykolayovych Vergun; 1871–1951) was a publicist, journalist, Russian-language poet, and literary historian from

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Biography

Born in a town of Horodok near Lviv of Austria-Hungary

, in 1899 Vergun defended his doctoral dissertation "Miletiy Smotrytskyi as western-Russian writer and grammarian" in

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. In 1900-1905 he was publishing in Vienna a neo-Slavophillic magazine "Slavianskiy vek". The

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in Austria-Hungary were sponsored by Russian aristocracy, particularly Count

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who was financing the magazine "Slavianskiy vek". Vergun also was a member of Galician-Russian Charitable Society (1902-1914) that was financed by the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1918-1919 Vergun was teaching Slavic philology in

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and Irkutsk University. Along with Pyotr Gatalak and Dmitriy Markov promoted the idea of Carpathian Russians. Due to the Russian Civil War, 1922-1945 he was teaching Russian language and Slavic Studies in the Prague Higher School. Since 1945 Vergun was a professor at the

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. He died in Houston Texas in 1951.

Works

Poetry

* Slavic bells * Red Russian echoes. Lemberg, 1901, 1907 * Carpathian echoes. 1920 * Cantata for Gogol Among his poems used to be successful his "Slavic bells" (russian: «Славянские звоны»). Many of his poems converted into songs ("Russian Sokol march" by

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, "Cantata to Gogol" by Arkhangelskiy, "Go ahead, people of the Red Russia!" by Ludmilla Schollar)

Literary History

* Religious persecutions of Carpathian Russians. Saint Petersburg, 1913 * Yevgeniy A. Fentsik and his place in Russian literature. Uzhhorod, 1926 * Measures of Minister Bachak in suppression of 1849 Carpathian Russian revival with memorandums by

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. Prague, 1938 * Slavic conversations. "Slavic Age", 1900, No. 1, 2, 4 * AI Herzen and the Slavic question. Ibid., 1901, No. 19 * At the crossroads of two cultures: Slavdom from Gdańsk to Trieste. Ibid., 1901, No. 23/24 * Autobiography. In the book: Vergun DN Poems. Lviv, 1901 * Panslavism and pan-Germanism. "Slavic Age", 1903, No. 67, 69, 72 * German "Drang nach Osten" in numbers and facts. Vienna, 1905 * What you need to know about the Slavs. Saint Petersburg, 1908 * Austro-Slavicism and Russo-Slavicism. In the book: Lado. Saint Petersburg, 1911 * Russia and Turkey. Saint Petersburg, 1911 * What is Galicia. Saint Petersburg, 1915 * The latest Carpatho-Russian bibliography. New York, 1920 * Introduction to Slavonic studies. Prague, 1924 * Eight lectures on Subcarpathian Russia. Prague, 1925 * Review of Carpatho-Russian literature. Prague, 1925 * The legend of Fyodor Kuzmich. "Notes of the Russian Historical Society", 1927, vol. 1 * To the historiography of neo-Slavism. In: Proceedings of the IV Congress of Russian Academic Organizations Abroad, Part 1. Belgrade, 1929 * In memory of YA Yavorsky. In: Timeline of the Stauropean Institute for 1938. Lviv, 1938.

External links

* Yas, O.V.
Vergun Dmitriy Nikolayevich (ВЕРГУН Дмитро Миколайович)
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