Borys Hrinchenko
Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko was a classical Ukrainian prose writer, political activist, historian, publicist, and ethnographer. He was instrumental in the Ukrainian cultural revival of the late 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Borys Hrinchenko was born on December 9, 1863 in the khutir of Vilkhovy Yar, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire . His father was a retired army officer of an impoverished noble heritage. His family possesseddesyatinas of land, mostly forest and a water mill. His father knew Ukrainian well and used it only when talked with neighboring peasants, whereas at home everyone in the family spoke Russian. Before enrolling in the Kharkiv city secondary school, young Hrinchenko was home schooled. While in school he was first arrested on December 29, 1879 for possession and distribution of Serhiy Podolynskys banned book . Athe was prohibited a further higher education. After about a year of exile to his fathers estate, he returned to Kharkiv and worked as a tutor, earning money to obtain a diploma from Kharkiv University as a peoples educator.
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