Dmitriy Vergun (, Dmitriy Nikolayevich Vergun, , Dmytro Mykolayovych Vergun; 1871–1951) was a publicist, journalist, Russian-language poet, and literary historian from Galicia.
Biography
Born in a town of Horodok near Lviv of Austria-Hungary Galicia, 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 Texas in 1951.
Works
Poetry
Slavic bells
Red Russian echoes. Lemberg, 1901, 1907
Carpathian echoes. 1920
Cantata for Gogol
Among his poems used to be successful his "Slavic bells" (). 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)
Literary History
Religious persecutions of Carpathian Russians. Saint Petersburg, 1913
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 Slavic conversations. "Slavic Age", 1900, No. 1, 2, 4 AI Herzen and the Slavic question. Ibid., 1901, No. 19 At the crossroads of two cultures: Slavdom from Gdańsk to Trieste. Ibid., 1901, No. 23/24 Autobiography. In the book: Vergun DN Poems. Lviv, 1901 Panslavism and pan-Germanism. "Slavic Age", 1903, No. 67, 69, 72 German "Drang nach Osten" in numbers and facts. Vienna, 1905 What you need to know about the Slavs. Saint Petersburg, 1908 Austro-Slavicism and Russo-Slavicism. In the book: Lado. Saint Petersburg, 1911 Russia and Turkey. Saint Petersburg, 1911 What is Galicia. Saint Petersburg, 1915 The latest Carpatho-Russian bibliography. New York, 1920 Introduction to Slavonic studies. Prague, 1924 Eight lectures on Subcarpathian Russia. Prague, 1925 Review of Carpatho-Russian literature. Prague, 1925 The legend of Fyodor Kuzmich. "Notes of the Russian Historical Society", 1927, vol. 1 To the historiography of neo-Slavism. In: Proceedings of the IV Congress of Russian Academic Organizations Abroad, Part 1. Belgrade, 1929 In memory of YA Yavorsky. In: Timeline of the Stauropean Institute for 1938. Lviv, 1938.
External links
Yas, O.V. Vergun Dmitriy Nikolayevich (ВЕРГУН Дмитро Миколайович). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine