Ivan Kotlyarevskiy

Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevsky was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and enlightener, a playwright, and the author of “Eneida, na Malorossiyskiy yazyk perelitsovanoy I. Kotlyarevskim,” written as a free adaptation of N. P. Osipov’s poem “Virgilieva Eneida, vyvorochennaya naiznanku,” published earlier in 1791.

He took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) and, after the war, published “Notes on the First Actions of the Russian Troops in the Turkish War of 1806.”

Ivan Kotlyarevsky was born in Poltava in 1769 into the Kotlyarevsky family, a noble Cossack officer lineage. Ivan’s father, Pyotr Ivanovich Kotlyarevsky, served as a chancery clerk in the Poltava municipal magistrate. His mother, Paraskeva Lavrentyevna Zhukovskaya, was the daughter of a сотенный Cossack from Reshetylivka. His paternal grandfather was a deacon at the Holy Dormition Cathedral in Poltava.

From 1780 to 1789, Ivan studied at the Poltava Theological Seminary[7]. In 1789–1793 he worked as a chancery clerk, and in 1793–1796 as a private tutor in landowner families in the countryside.

In 1796–1808, Ivan Kotlyarevsky was in military service. On 1 April 1796, Ivan Petrovich was appointed a cadet in the Seversky Dragoon Regiment; on 11 July 1796 he was promoted to auditor; in 1798 he was renamed a прапорщик; on 8 January 1799 he was promoted to second lieutenant, and on 5 February of the same year to lieutenant. In 1802, Kotlyarevsky was attached as an inspector’s adjutant to the inspector of the Dniester and Crimean Inspection, General of Cavalry Marquis Dotishamp. Then, from about 1806 until 3 November 1807, Ivan Petrovich continued to serve as adjutant to Baron