Afanasy Yakovlevich Rudchenko was born in the spring of May 13, 1849 in the Ukrainian town of Mirny. The name of his native city and later served as his pseudonym. His father worked as an accountant for the county treasury. Until the age of fourteen, the boy studied first in Mirgorod, then in Gadyachsky schools, and then went to work. Since 1963, Athanasius worked as an official in the treasury for eight years and at the same time for the first time tried himself in the literary field. His folklore
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Afanasy Yakovlevich Rudchenko was born in the spring of May 13, 1849 in the Ukrainian town of Mirny. The name of his native city and later served as his pseudonym. His father worked as an accountant for the county treasury. Until the age of fourteen, the boy studied first in Mirgorod, then in Gadyachsky schools, and then went to work. Since 1963, Athanasius worked as an official in the treasury for eight years and at the same time for the first time tried himself in the literary field. His folklore materials collected during these years were later published by his brother in the collections “Chumatsk folk songs” and “Folk South Russian fairy tales”.
In 1871, Rudchenko moved to Poltava, where he got a job in the Treasury Chamber.
In the Lviv magazine “Pravda” in 1872 published the poem “Ukraine” and the story “Bes confused” under the pseudonym Panas Mirny. In the 1870s and 80s, many works were written by Mirny, but due to strict censorship, they were all published abroad and the general Ukrainian public was not known. In Lviv and Geneva published an essay “Journey from Poltava to Gadyach”, the story “Drunk”, the story “Unhappy people”, the novel
“Do oxen roar when the manger is full?”
Only in the mid-1880s, the writer began to publish in his homeland. At this time, the almanac "Rada" published his famous novel "Povia" ("Walking"), a collection of stories "As is conducted, so is life", "Collection from the native field" and the comedy "Overthinking", "Catch", "Tale of Truth and Lies", "Limerivna", "Think about the army Igor".
Panas Mirny has always been a supporter of the revolutionary movement. In his youth he was in the Poltava organization “Unia”. His revolutionary worldview was reflected in such works as “Before the Muse”, “Dream”, “Before the Brothers-Shalants”.
In the revolutionary years, it was not easy for the Peaceful to understand what was happening. At first he accepted the Central Rada, but later he accepted Petlyura, but in Soviet times this fact, of course, was silenced.
The writer died on January 28, 1920. He was buried in Poltava. In the house where he lived, there is now a literary and memorial museum.