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Leonid Ivanovich Glibov (Glebov, Glibiv, Hlibiv) 5 March 1827, Vesyolyi Podol, Khorol uezd, Poltava Province — 10 November 1893, Chernigov) — Ukrainian writer, poet, fabulist, publisher, civic activist.

Leonid Glibov was born in the village of Vesyolyi Podol, Khorol uezd, into the family of an estate steward Ivan Nazarovich Glibov. Leonid spent his childhood in the village of Gorby, Kremenchug uezd, where his father got a job and whence the family relocated. He received his primary education at home from his mother. In 1840 he enters the Poltava Gymnasium, where he becomes fond of versing. He gets enchanted by Pushkin, Lermontov, Koltsov’s poetry. His first collection “Poems by Leonid Glebov” was published in Russian in 1847. Some of his poems (for example, “Stoyit’ Gora Vysokaya” (“There Stands a High Mountain…”) became folk songs. He leaves the Gymnasium due to illness. At home he discovers Ukraininan poetry by Taras Shevchenko and Eugen Grebinka. He writes his first fables "Vovk I Kit", "Lebid’, Shchuka I Rak", "Miroshnyk", "Zhaba I Vil", Zozulya I Piven’", "Okhrimova Svyta", "Synytsja"…. Among them are our old acquaintances since Ivan Krylov, La Fontaine and Aesop. Glibov would return to the fable genre during his study at the Nezhin Higher Sciences Lyceum. Some would be published in the newspaper “Chernigovskiye Gubernskiye Vedomosty”.

Upon his graduation from the Nezhin Lyceum in 1855, Glebov works as a teacher of history and geography at a Gymnasium in Chorny Ostrov, Podoliye, and since 1858 — at the Chernigov Gymnasium for boys, where he ardently champions advanced pedagogic methods. Glibov becomes the gravity center for the Chernigov intelligentsia. Between 1861 and 1863 he published “The Chernigovskii listok”, notorious for its “anti-government agitation.” The weekly edition regularly published socially poignant articles criticizing local executives, the despotic nobility, and the corrupted judiciary bodies. For his affiliation with a member of the underground organization “Zemlya i Volya” I. Andrushchenko, in 1863 Glibov was prohibited to practice his teaching profession and placed under police surveillance.

The poet spends two years in Nezhin and in 1865 returns to Chernigov to serve as a clerk at the Governor’s office. In 1867 he heads the provincial printing house. He continues his active creative work, prepares his fables collections, and publishes his “butterfly books”, topical satires, theater reviews, political essays, verses in the Russian language and children’s poetry.

Leonid Glibov died in Chernigov on November 10 1893. He was buried in the territory of saint Trinity monastery (Tolstoy street, Boldina Gora).

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Fables by Glibov were published by Kherson printing house “Ukrain’ska Knygarnya” in 1918. Leonid Glibov gained fame for his original fables in the Ukraininan language. He is known as one of the founders of Ukrainian children’s literature. All in all he has written about a hundred pieces in this genre. His first collection of the Ukrainian writings “Fables by Leonid Glibov” of 36 pieces was published in Kiev in 1863 (3rd ed., 1882), however, the entire edition was destroyed in accordance with order of the minister of interior. In 1872 he managed to issue an updated book of fables, and in 1882 — a reprint of the former edition. Glibov’s attempts to publish another collection were derailed due to censorship restrictions.

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