Friends!

Friends! 168 years ago was born Panas Rudenko, whom we know as Panas Mirny - Ukrainian writer, playwright and social activist.

Panas Yakovlevich was born on the 13th of May 1849 in Mirgorod, he was the son of an accountant county treasury. He was calm and closed child, though he had three brothers and a sister. Family lived poorly - father received a meager salary, his mother was illiterate and did not work, was busy in the garden.

To help the family, Panas started to work early - at age 14. Before that, he studied a bit in schools, enough to get a job as the court clerk, and later - assistant accountant. Gray routine, work and simple leisure like playing cards with a bottle of alcohol after work with colleagues – did not amuse Panas. He wanted to spend time on the books alone. So, he went to work every day with a heavy heart. But the work itself he treated differently: did it carefully, for that he received numerous awards and even became a state councilor. In 1871 Panas Rudenko became official in Poltava Exchequer, this work he gave up 40 years of his life.

The new work forced him to move - now Panas lived in Poltava. Along with the work, which he did not admire, Panas Rudenko found a favorite thing - writing. An example for him was an older brother Ivan, who since the beginning of 1860 published his folk material in "Poltavskyh Provincial Gazette," published in the "Fundamentals" and later published some collections of stories and songs, translated stories by Turgenev.

The first works under the pseudonym "Panas Mirny" - the poem "Ukraine" and the story was published in Lviv magazine "Pravda" in 1872. He could not print his works in the Russian Empire, because of censorship. Therefore, Panas Mirny was published and in small editions in Dnieper Ukraine.

In 1875, in collaboration with his brother Panas Mirnyi finished the novel "Why are owes roaring, if mangers are full?". They even gave it to censorship, to publish in Ukraine but Ems decree in 1876 banned Ukrainian publishing. So first novel was published in 1889 in Geneva.

Authors publications was supported by Michael Starytskyi, which produced an almanac "Council" where he published the first two parts of the novel "Prostitute" and some stories.

Panas Mirny has had revolutionary views followed since his youth - he was associated with the liberation movement, participated in the revolutionary group "Union" during the search he found a banned political publication. When in 1914 it was forbidden to commemorate Shevchenko, the writer expressed his deep indignation and protest actions of the Russian authorities. So, in a year he was in search listings as "politically suspect".

He got married only at the age of 40, with a young teacher of music from Poltava Institute of Noble Maidens Alexandra Mikhailovna Scheidemann.

He lived a double life - by day he was official, by night - night - pro-Ukrainian writer. In a letter Panas Mirny wrote: "I ask you not to disclosure my pen name. While many of my friends know who really is "Panas Mirny," but I do not want to advertise this name, seriously believing it is unworthy in comparison with the reputation Panas Mirny got. Suppose when I die (and it will be soon probably), people will know who I am and what good things I did for my country, unless I really did something good. "

"I do not want the glory. All my glory is Ukraine - he wrote in his youth in the diary. - If did something good, it would be my glory glory. " This was the position of the prominent Ukrainian writer. Panas died peacefully in Poltava on the 28th of January, 1920. But the words that he truly described Ukraine and Ukrainian, remain relevant today.