Nikolay Kostomarov, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolay Kostomarov

Russian-Ukrainian historian

Date of Birth: 04-May-1817

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1885

Profession: writer, poet, historian, critic, opinion journalist

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Nikolay Ivanovich Kostomarov (Russian: ??????´? ???´????? ???????´???, Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov, Ukrainian: ?????? ???????? ????????i?, Mykola Ivanovych Kostomariv; May 16, 1817, vil.
Yurasovka, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire – April 19, 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was one of the most distinguished Russian and Ukrainian historians, Ukrainian writer and poet, a Professor of History at the St.
Vladimir University of Kiev and later at the St.
Petersburg University, an Active State Councillor of Russia, an author of many books, including his famous biography of the seventeenth century Hetman of Zaporozhian Cossacks Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and his fundamental 3-volume Russian History in Biographies of its main figures (Russkaya istoriya v zhizneopisaniyakh yeyo glavneyshikh deyateley). He was considered by many to be a leading intellectual of the Narodniks.
Nikolay Kostomarov was important in the history of both Russian and Ukrainian culture.
The question of whether he was more "Russian" or more "Ukrainian" first arose while he was still alive and is still a matter of some dispute.