Dmitry Vergun
Dmitriy Vergun 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 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 ;
- Carpathian echoes ;
Among his poems used to be successful his "Slavic bells". Many of his poems converted into songsResearch
- The German "Drang nach Osten" in numbers and facts
- Russia and Turkey ;
- Religious persecutions of Carpathian Russians ;
- What is Galicia? ;
- What is necessary to know about Slavs ;
- Carpathian-Russian literature. Short essay ;
- 8 lessons about Subcarpathian Russia ;
- Yevgeniy A. Fentsik and his place in Russian literature ;
- Measures of Minister Bachak in suppression of 1849 Carpathian Russian revival with memorandums by Adolf Dobrjanský ;
