Viktor Petrov
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| Born | 10 October 1894 Yekaterinoslav,Ukraine,Russian Empire |
| Died | 8 June 1969(aged 74) Kyiv,Ukrainian SSR |
| Pen name | V. Domontovych, Viktor Ber |
| Occupation | novelist, literary critic, philosopher, archeologist |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Genre | Ukrainian literature |
| Notable works | Doctor Seraficus |
Viktor Platonovych Petrov(Ukrainian:Віктор Платонович Петров,pen namesV. Domontovych(Ukrainian:В. Домонтович),Viktor Ber(Ukrainian:Віктор Бер); 10 October 1894 – 8 June 1969) was a prominentUkrainianexistentialistwriter. Together withValerian Pidmohylny,Petrov is considered to be the founder of the Ukrainian intellectual novel. Although Petrov is remembered as a writer today, during his life he was a scientist in the first place. He wrote papers onarchaeology,anthropology,history,philosophyandliterature.
Biography
[edit]Viktor Petrov was born on 10 October 1894 in Yekaterinoslav (today'sDnipro). In 1918, he graduated from historical-philological faculty ofKyiv University.Later he worked at the ethnographic committee of theUkrainian Academy of Sciences.In 1930, he obtained his doctorate for a study titled "Panteleymon Kulish in the 50s. Life. Ideology. Creativity". During World War II he was in the territory occupied by Germans where he worked in several Ukrainian magazines and newspapers.
AfterWorld War IIPetrov stayed in emigration in Germany, during which he was a professor at theUkrainian Free UniversityinMunich.He was also one of the founding members of the Ukrainian artist movement, a literary organization of theUkrainian intellectual diaspora.At a later time Petrov disappeared from Germany under unknown circumstances. Later it was discovered (due to a reference to him inAleksandr Mongait's survey book) that he returned to theSoviet Unionand kept working at the Institute of Archaeology inKyiv.Petrov died in 1969 and is buried in Kyiv.
Writings
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Without Foundation (Без ґрунту) (1942–1943)[1]
- Girl with a Teddy Bear (Ukrainian:Дівчина з ведмедиком) (1928)
- Doctor Seraficus (Ukrainian:Доктор Серафікус[2]) (1928–1929, published in 1947)
- Alina and Kostomarov (Ukrainian:Аліна й Костомаров) (1929)
- Kulish's romances (Ukrainian:Романи Куліша) (1930)
- Doctor Seraficus (English translation of excerpt), translated by Yuri Tkacz, inBefore the Storm,Ardis Publishers USA
Scientific publications
[edit]- Origin of the Ukrainian Nation
- Scythians — language and ethnicity
- Ethnogenesis of Slavs
- [ Development of Ukrainian People]
- Ukrainian cultural activists - victims of repressions
References
[edit]- ^(in Ukrainian)"Bez gruntu,"the book in pdf formatArchivedMarch 11, 2007, at theWayback Machine
- ^(in Ukrainian)"Doctor Seraficus",website with the bookArchivedSeptember 25, 2009, at theWayback Machine
Literature
[edit]- Viktor Petrovin theEncyclopedia of Ukraine
- Andreyev V."Epoch theory" by Viktor Petrov: frustrated revolution of the Ukrainian historiography// Scriptorium nostrum. - 2015. - No. 1-2. - С. 7-34
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