Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky
(Ukrainian: Іван Петрович Котляревський) (9 September [O.S. 29 August] 1769 in Poltava – 10 November [O.S. 29 October] 1838
" in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kotliarevsky
"Although Ukrainian was an everyday language to millions of people in Ukraine, it was officially discouraged from literary use in the area controlled by Imperial Russia.
Eneida is a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks.
Critics believe that it was written in the light of the destruction of Zaporizhian Host by the order of Catherine the Great."
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This morning:
"Subsequent examinations by Latin experts determined that the fragment bore a quote from Virgil, best known as the author of the epic Latin poem the Aeneid."
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"The translation of the Georgics into Ancient Greek by Eugenios Voulgaris was published from St Petersburg in 1786 and had as one aim the support of Russia’s assimilation of the newly annexed Crimea by encouraging Greek settlement there.
Virgil’s theme of taming the wilderness was further underlined in an introductory poem praising Grigory Potemkin
as a philhellene Maecenas and the Empress Catherine the Great as the wise ruler
directing the new territory's welfare. The inference is also there that Voulgaris himself (now archbishop of Novorossiya and Azov) has become thus the imperial Virgil.[35]"
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