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Panas Myrny (real name is Panas Yakovych Rudchenko, 13 May 1849 - 28 January 1920) was a famous Ukrainian writer. Panas Rudchenko was born in 1849 into a family of an accountant in Myrhorod. In 1871 Panas Rudchenko begins to live and work in Poltava, holding various posts at the local government house. At last, in 1914 he achieved the rank of full government councilor. Panas Myrny's best-known work is the novel Propashcha syla (The Ruined Strength), also titled Khiba revut’ voly, yak yasla povni? (Do the Oxen Bellow, When Their Mangers Are Full?, 1880), that he coauthored with his brother, Ivan Rudchenko (also known as Ivan Bilyk). The work can be characterized as a sociopsychological novel-chronicle; it covers almost a century in the history of a Ukrainian village, from serfdom to the postreform era. In it Myrny depicts social oppression, internal struggle between various social groups, the tsarist legal system, the stern life of a soldier during the time of Tsar Nicholas I, police violence, and spontaneous protests against lies and injustice. Myrny's second important sociopsychological novel, Poviia (The Loose Woman, 1884), describes new social processes caused by the reforms of 1861. Myrny also portrayed the changed social dynamics of the village after the abolition of serfdom in the story Lykho davnie i s'ohochasne (Ancient and Contemporary Evil, 1903) and Sered stepiv (Among the Steppes, 1903).

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