Nazarevsky, Oleksander

Nazarevsky, Oleksander [Назаревський, Олександер; Nazarevs'kyj], b 12 December 1887 in Zlatopil (now Novomyrhorod), Chyhyryn county, Kyiv gubernia, d 30 September 1977 in Kyiv. Literary scholar. He graduated from Kyiv University in 1910 (where he studied under Volodymyr Peretts) and taught there from 1914. From 1928 to 1950 he was also a senior associate of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (subsequently, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR). He wrote over 100 works on old and modern Ukrainian literature and Russian literature. They include books on Nikolai Gogol and art (1910), the historical course of Ukrainian literature (1930), the early 17th-century Russian historical narrative (1958), the literary aspects of early 17th-century Muscovite charters and other documents (1961), and Russian-Ukrainian literary relations (1963); a bibliography on the ancient Rus’ narrative (1955); and many articles in Ukrainian and Russian serials. He was also involved in preparing the academic editions of the works of Gogol and Taras Shevchenko.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]