Philip Ivanovich Svistun ( 1844 - 1916 ) - Galician-Russian historian, philologist and writer.
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Biography
Born in the village of Tobolov, Kamenka-Bug district ( Austrian Empire , now Lviv region , Ukraine ) in a peasant family. He received his secondary education at the gymnasium in Lviv , then graduated from Lviv University . He taught geography and history at a gymnasium in the city of Ryaszew (now Rzeszow , Poland ). After resigning, he was director of the library of the Russian People’s House in Lviv (1902-1914), edited his edition of the Bulletin of the People’s House. He was the head of the Mikhail Kachkovsky Society and edited his publications.
The main scientific works of Philip Whistler :
- Galician Beskids and wooded Carpathians (1876, in Polish);
- What is Shevchenko for us (1885);
- Galician Rus in European politics (1886);
- The dispute about the Vikings at the beginning of Russia (1887);
- Carpathian Russia under the rule of Austria ( I, 1895 ; II, 1896 );
- The Galician-Russian army in 1848 (1899);
- Count Agenor Golukhovsky and Galitsky Russia (1901);
- Litvinovich and Naumovich (1905);
- In memory of the 60th anniversary of the accession to the throne of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- Leo Treshchakovsky (1910).
- What is it - Ukrainophilia? Its history and present characteristic. (1912)
Philip Whistler also wrote a novel:
- One heel story;
- Bloody summers;
- Pebble Ostrog.
In 1915, before the Russian troops retreated from Galicia, he left for Russia , fearing reprisals from the Austrian authorities. He died in Rostov-on-Don , which was the center of the Galician-Russian refugees in Russia.
Literature
- Vavrik V. R. A brief outline of the Galician-Russian script // Russian Galicia and “Maspianism”. M.: 2005.