Ivan Kotliarevsky

Ivan Kotliarevsky
Born	(1769-08-29)29 August 1769 O.S. (9 September 1769 N.S.) Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	29 October 1838(1838-10-29) (aged 69) O.S. (10 November 1838 N.S.) Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)

Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky (Ukrainian: Іван Петрович Котляревський; 9 September [O.S. 29 August] 1769 – 10 November [O.S. 29 October] 1838) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature.^[1] Kotliarevsky was a veteran of the Russo-Turkish War.