Іван Карпенко-Карий

Senarist · 61 yaşında vefat etti · Arsenivka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine]

Famous Ukrainian actor and playwright; the brother of the theater figures Panas Saksahanskyi, Mykola Sadovskyi, and Mariia Sadovska-Barilotti. Ivan Karpenko-Karyi (pen name of Ivan Tobilevych) was renowned as a playwright. He began writing quite late in life: his first story, Novobranets (The New Conscript), and first play appeared in 1883.