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nikolay kostomarov

nikolay ivanovich kostomarov -lrb- ; may 16 , 1817 , vil .
yurasovka , voronezh governorate , russian empire -- april 19 , 1885 , saint petersburg , russia -rrb- is one of the most distinguished russian historians , a professor of history at the kiev university and later at the st. petersburg university , an author of many books , including his famous biography of the seventeenth century hetman of zaporozhian cossacks bohdan khmelnytsky , and his fundamental 3-volume `` russian history in biographies of its main figures '' -lrb- `` russkaya istoriya v zhizneopisaniyakh yeyo glavneyshikh deyateley '' -rrb- .
nikolay kostomarov was so important for ukrainian culture , that some researchers observe him as a ukrainian historian , as well as russian .
