Alexander Buchinsky-Yaskold (birth and death years unknown) is a poet of the 2nd half of the 17th century .
Probably, he studied at the Kiev College , worked as a teacher in Novgorod-Seversky .
The author of the Polish-speaking panegyric dedicated to the hetman Ivan Samoilovich - “Chigirin, a border town in the heavy Turkish siege of the year 1677”, printed in Novgorod-Seversky in 1678. Only fragments that were included by the Cossack chronicler S. Velichko in his " Chronicle of events in South-West Russia c. XVII century ”(vols. 1–4, 1848–64). The essay highlights the events of the so-called first Chigirinsky campaign in 1677, when the combined Russian troops and Zaporozhye Cossacks during the Russian-Turkish war of 1672–1681 rebuffed the forces of the Ottoman Empire, who sought to capture the city of Chigirin .
A. Buchinsky-Yaskold was a poet from the circle of the Archbishop of Chernigov and Novgorod-Seversky Lazar (Baranovich) . In his works he mentions clergy with whom, obviously, he was well acquainted, including Ioannikiy Galyatovsky , Innokenty (Gizel) , M. Lezhaysky and others.
Literature
- Shevchuk V. Spivtsi kievskogo Parnasu. “Science and culture. Ukraine, 1980 ”, 1981. (Ukrainian)
Links
- Buchinsky-Yaskold, Oleksandr (Ukrainian)
When writing this article, the material used was the article “ BUCHINSKY-YASKOLD Oleksandr ” (author Yu.A. Mitsik) from the publication “ Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ”, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 Unported license .