Background
Panas Rudchenko was born in 1849 into a family of an accountant of county treasury in Mirgorod (today – Myrhorod).
Panas Rudchenko was born in 1849 into a family of an accountant of county treasury in Mirgorod (today – Myrhorod).
After several years of studying in a parish school of Myrhorod and a county school of Hadyach, at his fourteen Panas had to earn money for living. In 1863 he worked as a petty official in Hadyach county court. Next year Myrny worked as an accountant assistant in the local county treasury.
Later after a brief stint in Pryluky, he continued to work at same position in Myrhorod Treasury.
In 1871 Panas Rudchenko settled in Poltava, where he got the rank of State Councilor at the local government house. Literary activity became the real joy for Panas Myrny.
Restless, he was sitting at his desk in the evening and enthusiastically devoted himself to his hobby. In 1951, at the writes"s birthplace in Poltava the monument put in the courtyard of the museum-estate.