Betsky, Ivan [Bec'kyj], 1818–90. Publisher and translator in Kharkiv. He published four volumes of the almanac Molodyk (1843–4), which contained works by Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Kostomarov, Yakiv Shchoholiv, and Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, among others; translations of A. Barbier and V. Hugo; and articles on Ukrainian ethnography and folklore.