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Semen Klimovsky

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Semen Klimovsky
Born1705
Left-bank Ukraine
Died1785 (exact dates of birth and death are unknown)
village of Pryputni (today the part of Moshoryne

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Semen Klimovsky (Ukrainian: Семен Климовський) (1705 – 1785) was a Ukrainian Cossack, philosopher, poet of the Kharkiv Regiment. The author of the famous Ukrainian folk song "The Cossack Rode beyond the Danube".

Biography[edit]

memorial to Semen Klimovsky in Moshoryne

The life of S. Klymovsky, connected with the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, in which he studied (although there is no mention of Klymovsky in the encyclopedia "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Names"). Some historians considered him a genius, a "student of nature". Such a view is hardly justified, since the works of the poet that have come down to us testify to his good knowledge of languages, literature and philosophy. Among those who were spiritually closest to Klimovsky, Horace should be named first.

Exact years of life are unknown. In 1724, he was apparently quite a young man. At the end of the 18th century in the steppes of the former Zaporozhian Sich, together with a friend he founded the village of Pryputni, where he spent the last years of his life .

He died in the village of Pryputni of Kherson Governorate, near the modern village of Moshoryne, Kirovohrad region, at the end of the 18th century. (the village of Pryputni disappeared as a result of the Holodomor and its territory was annexed to Moshoryne).

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