Pyotr Ivanovich Golota

Background

Pyotr Ivanovich Golota was born on December 21, 1811, in Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine. Golota's father was a Kiev tradesman.

Education

Pyotr Ivanovich studied at the Kiev district school and graduated from the Kiev provincial gymnasium. Later on, he entered the ethical-political department of Moscow University.

While studying at the university, Pyotr Ivanovich began to study literature. In 1831 he wrote The Magic Opera in Poems, The Wizard, and published his main works.

Career

In the context of the growing popularity of the genre of historical novels, Pyotr Ivanovich adapted samples given by A. Bestuzhev, I. Lazhechnikov, M. Zagoskin applied to the needs and level of knowledge of less cultural and educated "middle class".

Pyotr Ivanovich turned to the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks in the novels Ivan Mazepa, Nalivaiko, or the times of calamities of Little Russia, Khmelnitskiye, or the annexation of Little Russia. His main theme was the national and religious self-determination of the Ukrainian people achieved in the struggle against the Polish gentry and the Catholic church what led to political unification with Russia.

In 1844-1847 Pyotr Ivanovich censored the play Volynsky (based on Lazhechnikov’s novel The Ice House), the historical novel Union, or the times of calamities of Little Russia (parts 1-4), the novel The Rascal, or Little Russian Grasp and other works. In 1857 was published Golota’s book, which had been filed by him in censorship in 1844 Zarutsky, the hetman of Zaporizhzhya’s troops. A historical novel from the troubled times of Russia.

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989