Myron Petrovsky
Myron Petrovsky was born on 8 May 1932 in Odesa. At an early age, he moved to Kyiv with his parents.
In 1957, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. His interests were centered on masters of literature and artists whose creative biography was connected with Kyiv, as well as peripheral areas of urban culture: children's literature, romance, cabaret, and anecdote.
Petrovsky's collection "Books of Our Childhood," full of historical and cultural conjecture, was particularly popular and went through two editions. Other important themes of the writer's work include Russian romance, the fate and urban metaphysics of Kyiv, and the works of Mikhail Bulgakov.
He lived and worked in Kyiv. Since 1998, he was the co-editor of the artistic and journalistic almanac "Yehupets."
He died on 14 November 2020.
Bibliography
Автор книжок:
- Корней Чуковский: критико-биографический очерк. — Детгиз, М., 1960. — 112 с. / 2-ге вид., М., 1962
- "Книга о Корнее Чуковском" (Москва, 1966)
- "Музика екрана" (Київ, 1967)
- "Книги нашого детства" — М.: Книга, 1986. — 288 стр. — Серия: Судьбы книг / 2-ге вид., СПб., Издательство Ивана Лимбаха, 2009. — 472 стр. — ISBN: 978-5-89059-105-0
- "Городу и миру: Киевские очерки" (Київ, 1990; 2-ге вид., Київ, 2008)
- "Мастер и Город. Киевские контексты Михаила Булгакова" (Київ, 2001; 2-ге вид., Київ, 2008; у перекладі польською мовою — Познань, 2004)
Упорядник і співупорядник видань:
- "Жизнь и творчество Самуила Яковлевича Маршака" (Москва, 1975)
- "Жизнь и творчество Льва Квитко" (Москва, 1976)
- "Русский романс на рубеже векав" (Київ, 1997; 2-ге вид. під назвою "Ах-романс. Эх-романс. Ох-романс. Русский романс на рубеже веков", Санкт-Петербург, 2005)
- Корней Чуковский, "Стихотворения" (Санкт-Петербург, 2002; серія "Библиотека поэта")