Complex sentence: Semen Hryzlo was born sometime in the late 1880s in the town of Katerynopil, Zvenigorod uyezd, in the Kiev Governorate, and worked as a scribe and teacher at a local rural school.
Split into simpler sentences: Semen Hryzlo was born sometime in the late 1880s in the town of Katerynopil, Zvenigorod uyezd (Kiev Governorate). At first he worked as a scribe and teacher at some local rural school.