PETROVITC11 (18.11.951. A Russian scholar and littrraieur. lie was born at lladytiteli, in the of Poltava. In 1865 he was ap pointed lecturer at the Unix ersity of Kiev, wheie he held the chair of general history until 1876. He criticised the educational system of (Mint Dmitri Tolstoy. which was based on German models of classicism. alit] refused, to send in his resignation because of his Ukrainophil activity: but a special commission. appointed by Alex ander 11., (mind him guilty, and he was for bidden to reside in Little Russia and the capi tals, or to engage in literary pursuits. The Southern Section of the Geographical society in Kiev was abolished, and the printing of hooks in the Little Russian dialect was prohibited. Dragomanoff went to Geneva. where he le mained until made professor of history at the University of Sofia, in Bulgaria, in 1888. For over twenty years he fearlessly combated :iu toera•y and oppression in all its forms. A strong nationalist. he advocated a complete re organization of Russia on federative line-, in which every nationality should possess equal and equitable representation. As lie started out on
the field of literary and political activity at a time when the terroristic doctrines were at their height, he stood for politica] execution, and justi fied it on the ground of necessity in view of the ultimate triumph of political liberty. His nu werous works in the literary and historical field deal mostly with his native Little Russia, of which he was passionately fond. Beginning with The Historical Songs of Little Russia, published by him in collaboration with Professor Antono vitch, in 1874. Dragomanoff incessantly worked on the history, ethnography, folk-lore, and religious history of his country. After The Question of Little Russian Literature (1876), he published a series of popular pamphlets in the Little P,us Sian dialect, and. during 1878-82, five volumes of the periodical Hroniada ( The Commune). His Le tyrannieidr en Russie appeared in Geneva (1S76) ; La Pologne historian(' et la democratic moseorite (1881); Tlte Political Songs in the Ukrainian Language in the Eighteenth and Nine teenth Centuries (Geneva, 1883-851.