Olexandr Pol

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  Olexandr Pol (1832-1890) was a well-known researcher of Ukrainian-German descent, public figure, archaeologist, and local historian, but his connection with Poltava is less known than his activities in the Katerynoslav region (now Dnipro oblast). Nevertheless, it was in our city that the future entrepreneur and philanthropist gained brilliant knowledge and patriotic inspiration for the rest of his life. Several places associated with the life of young Pol have been preserved in Poltava.
  Olexandr Pol's maternal relatives lived in Poltava on Kamianna Street (now Magdeburg Law Street), so in 1844 young Olexandr entered the Poltava First Men's Gymnasium, where he studied until 1850. At the same time, Leonid Hlibov (1827-1893), a classic of Ukrainian literature and a fabulist, studied at the gymnasium. Other teachers at the gymnasium at that time were the famous Ukrainian romantic poet Levko Borovykovskyi, the first biographer of Ivan Kotliarevskyi, Ukrainian public and cultural figure Stepan Steblin-Kaminskyi, historian and ethnographer Pavlo Bodianskyi, and artist Fedot Tkachenko.  In 1846, the First Poltava Men's Gymnasium was visited by the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Hrebinka, who expressed his impressions of his stay in the city in his work Poltava Evenings.
  For various events, Olexandr Pol had to attend the Noble Assembly building, as the gymnasium did not have an assembly hall. All the celebrations at the end of the school year also took place in the hall of the Noble Assembly.

 

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