Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
September 17, 2024 year with the participation of students of 31-F and 31-M groups were held literary readings, dedicated to 255th anniversary from the day of birth Ivan Kotlyarevsky – Ukrainian writer and public figure, the first classic of new Ukrainian literature.
I. Kotlyarevsky's creative heritage is the poem "Aeneid", the plays "Natalka Poltavka" and "Moskal-charivnyk", the ode-message "Song for the New Year 1805 to our lord and father Prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin", a translation into Russian of excerpts from Dukel's work "Gospel Reflections, Distributed for All Days of the Year...", and a retelling of the poem by the ancient Greek poetess Sappho "Ode to Sappho".
Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevsky is considered the founder of new Ukrainian literature.
During literary readings, students learned interesting little-known facts from the life of Ivan Kotlyarevsky. In particular:
Even in his youth, Ivan Kotlyarevsky was amazed by the richness and beauty of folk art, language, and customs. His enthusiasm and impressions grew into studying the everyday life of the Ukrainian people. Dressed in a young man's clothes, he closely observed the ancient way of life of Ukrainians, listened to conversations, studied customs, beliefs, and rituals. He wrote down songs, proverbs, humorous sayings, anecdotes, and legends...
Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevsky played the violin well and had a wonderful voice. Having finished the duties assigned to the teacher by his master, in the evening he would go to his room, take the violin down from the wall, and all the anxieties, resentments, mental worries, and everyday troubles would disappear somewhere far away.
Ivan Petrovich has a great merit in the revival of cultural life in Poltava. As the director of the Poltava Theater, he devoted a lot of energy and attention to the cause of raising the culture of stage skills in his hometown. Thanks to Kotlyarevsky's activities, Poltava residents were able to see the best plays of that time.
For the children of the Home deprived of their families, Ivan Petrovich was a father - strict, demanding and at the same time kind, attentive, fair. He abolished physical punishment. He organized various entertainments for the children: trips to nature, Christmas trees, caroling and giving gifts, as well as performances of small plays, in which he himself played together with the children. He also made sure that the students received sufficient knowledge in various subjects, were well-mannered...
His works are a treasury of Ukrainianness, which reveals a powerful layer not only of our history, but also of mental attributes, folk customs, and rituals that have always surprised and continue to fascinate the world community.
They say that Kotlyarevsky's "Aeneid" was even in Napoleon's library. Ukrainians, that's what they are. Let's be proud that we are Ukrainians.
Tetyana KRYSTOPCHUK,
Ukrainian language teacher
