John Purse Kotlyarevskogo

While preparing an exhibition to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevskogo in the Chernihiv Historical Museum named VV. Tarnowska found a purse with gold embroidery, owned writer. It was a note, left the first museum director Andrei Pavlovich Shelukhin this content: "Note SP. Steblina-Kaminsky. Purse, owned I.P. Kotlyarevsky, presented by my mother in 1820 year 18 March, the day of the Angel ".

turned, that Stephen P. Kaminski, Steblin (1814–1885) was the first biographer Kotlyarevskogo, which is used in compiling biographies memoirs of contemporaries writer, that "it did not dead scheme, a living person ". This was facilitated by the fact, that father Pavel Stepanovich Steblin-Kaminsky (1782–1856) was a close friend of the author's "Aeneid", worked with him in the same institution, and later at his own expense put on the grave of the poet's first monument. It is not surprising, Kotlyarevsky that made a gift to his wife Alexandra Grigorievna, nee Levenets.

All the life of SP. Steblin-Kamensky took care of the popularization of Kotlyarevsky's life and work, protecting its literary heritage. On his initiative in Poltava widely celebrated the centenary of his birth, was restored monument, built by his father, the opening is said Stephen P.: "And a hundred years Kotlyarevskogo name will be known to our descendants, they will be respected, and a good memory of it will be everlasting memory ... ".

Світлана Половнікова,

старший науковий співробітник музею