26 Facts About Nikolay Kostomarov

Nikolay Kostomarov was known as a Ukrainian folklorist and an author of works on Ukrainian history; he was a member of the Ukrainian national revival society best known as the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which existed in Kiev from January 1846 to March 1847.

Nikolay Kostomarov was a poet, ethnographer, pan-slavist and promoter of the so-called Narodniks movement in the Russian Empire.

Nikolay Kostomarov's father was a Russian landlord, Ivan Petrovich Kostomarov, and he belonged to Russian nobility.

Nikolay Kostomarov's mother Tatiana Petrovna Melnikova, was an ethnic Ukrainian peasant and one of his father's serfs; that is why Nikolay Kostomarov de jure was a "serf" of his father.

Nikolay Kostomarov's father ended up marrying his mother, but he was born before this.

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Nikolay Kostomarov's father wanted to adopt young Nikolay, but he didn't get a chance before he was killed at the hands of his domestic serfs, in 1828, when Nikolay was 11 years old.

Nikolay Kostomarov's father was known to be cruel to his serfs, and they reportedly stole his fathers money after they killed him.

Nikolay Kostomarov put forward the idea that there are two types of Rus' people, those of the Kievan background, among the Dnieper Basin, which he called Southern Russians, and those of the Novgorodian background, which he called Northern Russians.

Nikolay Kostomarov observed Northern Russians as a political hegemon of the Russian state.

Nikolay Kostomarov was the first Russian historian who used of ethnography and folksong in history, and tried to discern the "spirit" of the people, including the so-called "national spirit", by this method .

Nikolay Kostomarov was interested in the history of the insurgent leaders in Russia.

Nikolay Kostomarov's detailed writing on the case of Stepan Razin, one of the most popular figures in the history of the Don Cossack Host, was particularly important for the political evolution of Narodniks.

Nikolay Kostomarov maintained a long-standing argument with Mikhail Pogodin regarding the linguistic and ethnographic origin of the word "Rus'".

Nikolay Kostomarov was a very religious man and a devout adherent of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Nikolay Kostomarov was critical of Catholic and Polish influences on the area of Ukraine and Belarus throughout the centuries, but, nevertheless, was considered as more open to Catholic culture than many of his Russian contemporaries, and later, the members of the Slavic Benevolent Societies.

Nikolay Kostomarov 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.

Nikolay Kostomarov was active in cultural politics in the Russian Empire being a proponent of a Pan-Slavic and federalized political system.

Nikolay Kostomarov was a major personality in the Ukrainian national movement, a friend of the poet Taras Shevchenko, a defender of the Ukrainian language in literature and in the schools, and a proponent of a populist form of Pan-Slavism, a popular movement in a certain part of the Russian intelligentsia of his time.

Nikolay Kostomarov had a profound influence on later Ukrainian historians such as Volodymyr Antonovych and Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

Nikolay Kostomarov was a romantic author and poet, a member of the Kharkov Romantic School.

Nikolay Kostomarov published two poetry collections, both collections containing historical poems mostly about Kievan Rus' and Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

Nikolay Kostomarov published a detailed analysis of the Great Russian folksongs.

Nikolay Kostomarov's poetry is known for including vocabulary and other elements of traditional elements and folk songs, which he collected and observed in his historical research with respect to the ethnography.

Nikolay Kostomarov wrote historical dramas, however these had little influence on the development of the theater.

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Nikolay Kostomarov wrote a prose in Russian, and a Russian mixed with Ukrainian peace, but these are considered insignificant.