Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky
Russian poet
Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1816
Place of Birth: Iskivtsi, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 06-Sep-1875
Profession: poet, lexicographer
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Alexander Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky
- Alexander Stepanovich Afanasyev (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ?????????, 12 March 1817 – 18 September 1875) was a Russian and Ukrainian poet, writer, editor, ethnographer and translator (from Polish and English).
- In 1853 he started using the pseudonym ?????????? (Chuzhbinsky) and has been known mostly as Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky since.Afanasyev was born in village Iskovtsy, Lubensky region, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire, now Ukraine.
- He made his debut as a published poet in 1837 ("The Ring", ??????, Sovremennik); his first Ukrainian poem came out in 1841 (Saint Petersburg almanac ????????, Swallow).
- His Ukrainian poems were collected in From My Heart (?? ???? ?? ?????) and published in 1855.Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky's two-volume ethnographic work, A Journey to the Southern Russia (??????? ? ????? ??????, Saint Petersburg, 1861) came as a result of his 1856 journey to Pridneprovye (Dnieper River region) which he made as part of an ambitious Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich-inspired ethnographical campaign which involved several major Russian authors, including Alexander Ostrovsky and Alexey Pisemsky.He took part in compiling the Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language (??????? ???????????? ???????, ? – ?; 1855) which was endorsed by the Russian Academy of Sciences, even if criticized by several Ukrainian language scholars.Afanasyev launched Peterburgsky Listok (Petersburg Leaflet) in 1867, and later, in the 1870s Magazin Inostrannoi Literatury (Magazine of Foreign Literature) which he was also the editor of.
- Afanasyev-Chuzhbinsky translated the works by James Fenimore Cooper, Henryk Rzewuski, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Józef Korzeniowski.
- In 1851 he compiled and published the Gallery of Polish Writers in 5 volumes.He died in Saint Petersburg, aged 59.
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