Grigori Machtet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Grigori Machtet

Ukrainian writer

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1852

Place of Birth: Lutsk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Ukraine

Date of Death: 27-Aug-1901

Profession: writer, poet, journalist, revolutionary

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet (Russian: ???????? ????????????? ??????; Ukrainian: ???????? ????????????? ??????, Hryhorij Oleksandrovych Machtet) (1852, Lutsk — 1901, Yalta) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin.
He is the author of the well-known song "Tormented by Grievous Bondage" (??????? ??????? ???????). Machtet with his associates went to America to organize a land commune there.
Soon due to financial hardships he had to become a hired man.
Having returned to Russia in 1874 he got involved in a revolutionary movement. In 1876 Machtet was imprisoned to the Petropavloskaya fortress, and then exiled to Siberia. Machtet wrote his most famous works, among which his novel "One Warrior In The Field", the story "His Hour Has Come", a series of Siberian stories, and some articles published in the "Native Stories" magazine.