Dmytro Pylchykov - Ukrainian civic and cultural activist, teacher.

1863 graduated from the historical-philological faculty of Kyiv University. After that he worked as assistant librarian in the same university. In 1846-1864 years he taught at Poltava Cadet Corps. 1846 met with Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...

 and joined Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius

Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius

The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius was a short-lived secret political society that existed in Kiev, Ukraine, at the time a part of the Russian Empire...

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In 1860-1870's took part in the national democratic movement, was a member and active advocate Ukrainophilism in Poltava community. In the 1870s maintained contacts with the Galician public and cultural figures, and with Mykhailo Drahomanov

Mykhailo Drahomanov

Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov was a Ukrainian political theorist, economist, historian, philosopher, ethnographer and public figure in Kiev. Born to a noble family of Petro Yakymovych Drahomanov who was of a Cossack descent. Mykhailo Drahomanov started his education at home, then studied at the...

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1873 Pylchykov while in Lviv became the founder of the literary society of Taras Shevchenko (later - Scientific Society of Taras Shevchenko).
Died Oct. 5 (October 17, New Style) 1893 in Kharkiv.

Dmytro Pylchykov was father of prominent Ukrainian/Russian physicist Nikolai Pylchykov

Nikolai Pylchykov

Nikolai Pylchykov was a Russian physicist, inventor, and geologist. He is known for the discovery of the photovoltaic effect, new properties of X-rays, and ways to control various mechanisms of the radio provided a basis of radio control.Pylchykov discovered the phenomenon of electronic...