Dmitry Vergun

Dmitriy Vergun (Russian: Дмитрий Николаевич Вергун, Dmitriy Nikolayevich Vergun; 1871–1951) was a Russian poet and historian of literature from the Austrian Galicia.

Biography

Born in a town of Horodok near Lviv of Austria-Hungary, in 1899 Vergun defended his doctoral dissertation "Miletiy Smotrytskyi as western-Russian writer and grammarian" in Vienna University. In 1900-1905 he was publishing in Vienna a neo-Slavophillic magazine "Slavianskiy vek". The neo-Slavism in Austria-Hungary were sponsored by Russian aristocracy, particularly Count Vladimir Bobrinskiy who was financing the magazine "Slavianskiy vek". Vergun also was a member of Galician-Russian Charitable Society (1902-1914) that was financed by the Russian Orthodox Church.

In 1918-1919 Vergun was teaching Slavic philology in Moscow University and Irkutsk University.

Along with Pyotr Gatalak and Dmitriy Markov promoted the idea of Carpathian Russians.

Due to the Russian Civil War, 1922-1945 he was teaching Russian language and Slavic Studies in the Prague Higher School. Since 1945 Vergun was a professor at the Houston University.

He died in Houston in 1951.

Works

Poetry
  • Red Russian echoes (Lemberg, 1901, 1907);
  • Carpathian echoes (1920);

Among his poems used to be successful his "Slavic bells" (Russian: «Славянские звоны»). Many of his poems converted into songs ("Russian Sokol march" by Vojtěch Hlaváč, "Cantata to Gogol" by Arkhangelskiy, "Go ahead, people of the Red Russia!" by Ludmilla Schollar)

Research
  • The German "Drang nach Osten" in numbers and facts (Vienna, 1905)
  • Russia and Turkey (Saint Petersburg, 1910);
  • Religious persecutions of Carpathian Russians (Saint Petersburg, 1913);
  • What is Galicia? (Saint Petersburg, 1914);
  • What is necessary to know about Slavs (Saint Petersburg, 1926);
  • Carpathian-Russian literature. Short essay (Prague, 1925);
  • 8 lessons about Subcarpathian Russia (1925);
  • Yevgeniy A. Fentsik and his place in Russian literature (Uzhhorod, 1926);
  • Measures of Minister Bachak in suppression of 1849 Carpathian Russian revival with memorandums by Adolf Dobrjanský (Prague, 1938);



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