Vasyl Panasovych Hohol-Yanovsky ( uk, Василь Панасович Гоголь-Яновський; 1777 – 31 March (11 April) 1825) also known as Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky was an author of a number of theater pieces in Russian and in Ukrainian and father of the writer Nikolai Gogol. He was the landlord of the village of Vasilyevka (now Hoholeve),

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and descendant of Ukrainian Cossack noble families of Hohol and Lizogub. Vasily Hogol-Yanovsky loved writing comedic stage plays in Russian as well as in Ukrainian, which were successfully put on by the famous theatre patron

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Biography

Vasily was a son of Opanas Demianovych Hohol-Yanovsky (1739–1798) and Tatyana Semenivna Lizohub (1760–1826). According to legend, one ancestor, Ostap Hohol,Hohol, Ostap
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of Right-Bank Ukraine. His grandfather and great grandfather were Orthodox priests. He attended the Poltava Theological Seminary and was a member of the Zaporizhian Army. Having spent some time at the post service, Vasyl left in 1805, with the rank of Collegiate Assessor and retired to his own estate Vasilyevka (Yanovshchina) to devote himself to farming. Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky was a friend of Dmitry Prokofyevich Troshchinsky, Minister of the State Council, and a distant relative. Vasily Afanasyevich was the director and actor in the Troshchinsky Home Theater between 1812 and 1825. In this capacity, he wrote several musical comedies based upon

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and

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. Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky also wrote poems in the Russian and Ukrainian languages. Alexander Danilevsky noted that Vasily was a "matchless storyteller".

Works

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''. – 1862. – # 2. – pp. 19–43.

References

External links

"For Fools, or The Cunning Woman" by Vasyl Gogol-Yanovsky

Encyclopedia of Ukraine (Toronto) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gogol-Yanovsky, Vasyl 1777 births 1825 deaths Nikolai Gogol Lyzohub family Ukrainian nobility Ukrainian dramatists and playwrights Ukrainian poets Ukrainian landlords 19th-century landowners