Dmitry Vergun

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Dmitriy Vergun (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Вергун, Dmitriy Nikolayevich Vergun, Ukrainian: Дмитро Миколайович Вергун, Dmytro Mykolayovych Vergun; 1871–1951) was a publicist, journalist, Russian-language poet, and literary historian from Galicia.

Biography

Born in a town of Horodok near Lviv of Austria-Hungary Galicia, in 1899 Vergun defended his doctoral dissertation "Miletiy Smotrytskyi as western-Russian writer and grammarian" in Vienna University. In 1900-1905 he was publishing in Vienna a neo-Slavophillic magazine "Slavianskiy vek". The neo-Slavism in Austria-Hungary were sponsored by Russian aristocracy, particularly Count Vladimir Bobrinskiy who was financing the magazine "Slavianskiy vek". Vergun also was a member of Galician-Russian Charitable Society (1902-1914) that was financed by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 1918-1919 Vergun was teaching Slavic philology in Moscow University and Irkutsk University.

Along with Pyotr Gatalak and Dmitriy Markov promoted the idea of Carpathian Russians.

Due to the Russian Civil War, 1922-1945 he was teaching Russian language and Slavic Studies in the Prague Higher School. Since 1945 Vergun was a professor at the Houston University.

He died in Houston Texas in 1951.

Works

Poetry

Slavic bells
Red Russian echoes. Lemberg, 1901, 1907
Carpathian echoes. 1920
Cantata for Gogol

Among his poems used to be successful his "Slavic bells" (Russian: «Славянские звоны»). Many of his poems converted into songs ("Russian Sokol march" by Vojtěch Hlaváč, "Cantata to Gogol" by Arkhangelskiy, "Go ahead, people of the Red Russia!" by Ludmilla Schollar)

Literary History

Religious persecutions of Carpathian Russians. Saint Petersburg, 1913
Yevgeniy A. Fentsik and his place in Russian literature. Uzhhorod, 1926
Measures of Minister Bachak in suppression of 1849 Carpathian Russian revival with memorandums by Adolf Dobrjanský. Prague, 1938
Slavic conversations. "Slavic Age", 1900, No. 1, 2, 4
AI Herzen and the Slavic question. Ibid., 1901, No. 19
At the crossroads of two cultures: Slavdom from Gdańsk to Trieste. Ibid., 1901, No. 23/24
Autobiography. In the book: Vergun DN Poems. Lviv, 1901
Panslavism and pan-Germanism. "Slavic Age", 1903, No. 67, 69, 72
German "Drang nach Osten" in numbers and facts. Vienna, 1905
What you need to know about the Slavs. Saint Petersburg, 1908
Austro-Slavicism and Russo-Slavicism. In the book: Lado. Saint Petersburg, 1911
Russia and Turkey. Saint Petersburg, 1911
What is Galicia. Saint Petersburg, 1915
The latest Carpatho-Russian bibliography. New York, 1920
Introduction to Slavonic studies. Prague, 1924
Eight lectures on Subcarpathian Russia. Prague, 1925
Review of Carpatho-Russian literature. Prague, 1925
The legend of Fyodor Kuzmich. "Notes of the Russian Historical Society", 1927, vol. 1
To the historiography of neo-Slavism. In: Proceedings of the IV Congress of Russian Academic Organizations Abroad, Part 1. Belgrade, 1929
In memory of YA Yavorsky. In: Timeline of the Stauropean Institute for 1938. Lviv, 1938.