Mykhailo Petrenko

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| birth_name = Mykhailo Mykolayovych Petrenko

| birth_date = 1817

| birth_place = Sloviansk, Russian Empire
(now Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)

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| death_place = Lebedyn, Russian Empire

| occupation = Poet

| citizenship = Russian Empire

| period = 1841–1862

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Mykhailo Mykolayovych Petrenko ({{langx|uk|Петренко Михайло Миколайович}}; 1817{{cite web |title=Petrenko, Mykhailo |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CP%5CE%5CPetrenkoMykhailo.htm |website=www.encyclopediaofukraine.com |access-date=12 March 2024}} – {{OldStyleDateDY|January 6,|1863|December 25, 1862}}{{cite book |title=Шевченківська енциклопедія. Том 5: Пе–С |date=2015 |publisher=Інститут літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України. Київ |page=96 |url=https://archive.org/details/shevch05/page/96/mode/1up?q=1817 |access-date=12 March 2024}}) was a Ukrainian romantic poet notable for his musical works, and a member of the Kharkiv Romantic School.{{cite book |last1=Hryt͡sak |first1=I͡Aroslav |title=Istorii︠a︡ Ukraïny |date=1996 |publisher=Svit |isbn=978-5-7773-0263-2 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cE4jAQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE+%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE+%C2%AB%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%C2%BB |access-date=12 March 2024 |language=uk}} He was married to Anna Evgrafivna Myrgorodova.{{cite web |title=UKRAINIAN SLOBOZHANSKY POET MYKHAYLO PETRENKO |url=https://donnaba.edu.ua/journal/images/2016-4/2016-04_33-36.pdf |website=donnaba.edu.ua |access-date=12 March 2024}}

Biography

Petrenko was born in the town Sloviansk to a provincial secretary, Petrenko Mykola Dmytrovych, and his wife Mykola Dmytrovych in 1817 as their second child.{{cite web |title=" Т е ор і я т а ме т од и к а н а в ч а н н я с у с п і л ь н и х д и с ц и п л і н " |url=https://repository.sspu.edu.ua/bitstream/123456789/12736/1/POET%20%E2%80%93%20ROMANTYK.pdf |website=repository.sspu.edu.ua |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003074110/https://repository.sspu.edu.ua/bitstream/123456789/12736/1/POET%20%E2%80%93%20ROMANTYK.pdf |access-date=12 March 2024|archive-date=2023-10-03 }} Petrenko studied at the juridical faculty of Kharkov University during 1837–1841.{{cite web |title=МИХАЙЛО ПЕТРЕНКО ЗАДИВЛЕНИЙ У НЕБО УКРАЇНИ |url=https://www.mao.kiev.ua/biblio/jscans/svitogliad/svit-2015-10-1/svitoglyad-2015-1-3-bondar.pdf |website=mao.kiev.ua |access-date=12 March 2024}} He served in the judicial institutions: in Kharkov (1844–1847), Vovchansk (1847–1849), Lebedyn (1849–1862), rising to collegiate assessor (rank 8th grade).

Petrenko's first poetry published in the anthology Snip (1841).{{cite web |title=М. Петренко (1817-1862). Життя і творчість" |url=https://moodle.znu.edu.ua/pluginfile.php?file=/52462/mod_resource/content/1/%D0%9C.%20%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE.pdf |website=moodle.znu.edu.ua |access-date=13 March 2024}} Among them was the poem "I looked at the sky and thought a thought", which became a folk song – the highest award for Ukrainian poet. His 1845 dramatic duma "Naida" was first published in 2013.{{cite book |last1=Євграфович |first1=Петренко Олександр |title=Поет-романтик Михайло Миколайович Петренко (1817–1862): Твори. Критичні та історико-літературні матеріали |date=2015 |publisher=«ПП «НВЦ «ПРОФІ |location=Kyiv |page=65 |url=https://library.znu.edu.ua/newbook/index.php?action=url/view&url_id=67798 |access-date=13 March 2024}} In 1848 A. L. Metlynsky published in the "South Russian collection" selection of Petrenko's poems titled "Thoughts and singing".

Asteroid 274843 Mykhailopetrenko, discovered by astronomers at the Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory in 2009, was named in his honor. The official {{MoMP|274843|naming citation}} was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 October 2014 ({{small|M.P.C. 90380}}).