Obolonsky, Oleksander

Obolonsky, Oleksander [Оболонський, Олександер; Obolons'kyj], b 9 March 1823 in Saint Petersburg, d 23 October 1877 in Kharkiv. Editor and publisher. He met Taras Shevchenko (1858) and published his works (in both the original and in Russian translation), as well as those of other Ukrainian writers, such as Panteleimon Kulish, Yakiv Shchoholev, and Marko Vovchok, in his journal Narodnoe chtenie. In 1860 he also printed a renowned autobiographical letter from Shevchenko. After the journal closed down, Obolonsky worked in Poltava gubernia as a county marshal and zemstvo official.

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