Ivan Yugasevich-Sklyarsky ( Rus . Ivan Yugasevich-Sklyarsky , 1741 , the village of Prikra , Pryashevskaya Rus - December 15, 1814 , the village of Nevitskoye near Uzhgorod ) is a Ruthenian folklorist , poet , icon painter , scribe and manuscript compiler.
Biography
Educated in Lviv and Galich . From 1775 he worked as a singing teacher, was a church curator and headman of the village of Nevitskoye, Uzhgorod district.
The three collections compiled by him include church and secular songs. Having a calligraphic handwriting, he copied 30 “Irmologies” - liturgical books richly illustrated by his own drawings. The last collection, compiled in 1811, contained 224 folk songs, including many of them satirical and humorous.
He also prepared several handwritten calendars designed for 100 years. One for 1809 contained 370 popular sayings and was one of the first collections of Ruthenian proverbs (“General sayings in the community of the unkind”). When compiling calendars, he included in them his own poems and folklore works. He painted icons.
The calendars of Yugasevich-Sklyarsky were edited by Ivan Pankevich and published in the collection of the Slavic Institute in Prague in 1946.
Links
- Yuhasevych-Skliarsky, Ivan (English)