Grigori Machtet

Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet (russian: Григорий Александрович Мачтет; uk, Григорій Олександрович Мачтет, translit=Hryhorii Oleksandrovych Machtet) (1852,

Lutsk Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lu ...

— 1901,

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) was a Russian-language writer of

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origin. He is the author of the well-known song "Tormented by Grievous Bondage" ( ). Machtet with his associates went to America to organize a land commune there. Soon due to financial hardships he had to become a hired man. Having returned to Russia in 1874 he got involved in a revolutionary movement. In 1876 Machtet was imprisoned to the Petropavloskaya fortress, and then exiled to

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. Machtet wrote his most famous works, among which his novel "One Warrior In The Field", the story "His Hour Has Come", a series of Siberian stories, and some articles published in the "Native Stories" magazine. 1852 births 1901 deaths People from Lutsk People from Volhynian Governorate 19th-century novelists from the Russian Empire Novelists from the Russian Empire Male writers from the Russian Empire Ukrainian writers 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire {{Ukraine-bio-stub