Ilarion Hrabovych

Ilarion Mykhailovych Hrabovych (Іларіон Михайлович Грабович, June 18, 1856, Shmankivtsi, now Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast - July 11/24, 1903, Lviv) was a Ukrainian poet, literary figure, publicist, teacher.

Biography
He was born on June 18, 1856, in the family of a teacher in the village of Shmankivtsi (Chortkiv district, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austrian Empire, now Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine). He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1884, Lviv University, a teacher by profession. He taught in high schools in Buchach, Sambir, Lviv. He died, according to some sources, 11 (according to others, July 24 ) in 1903 in Lviv (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, now Lviv region, Ukraine). Buried on the 31st floor of Lychakiv Cemetery, the grave is not preserved.

Legacy
He began writing in the mid-1870s. Author of a short historical novel, essays, poetry. Employee of Zoria, Dila, Svitu, and other magazines.

The most famous works:
 * "Marta Boretska" (novel, 1880, adaptation of N. Karamzin's novel "Martha Posadnytsia, or the conquest of Novgorod"),
 * "A Brief History of Novgorod" (1880),
 * "The Best Easter" (autobiographical story, 1882),
 * "The Cursed Dungeon",
 * "Choice of Poetry" (collection of poems; Lviv, 1905).