Stepan Karpenko (literary pseudonym - "Palyvoda") is a Ukrainian actor, composer, writer, singer.
Biography
Stepan Karpenko was born on 24 December 1814 (5 January 1815) in Vasylkiv, Kyiv region. He died no earlier than 1886.
Together with his brother H. D. Karpenko, he wrote the vaudeville "Matchmaking at the Party", which was filmed in 1911.
He began publishing in 1831. He participated in the publication of literary collections, wrote poems and stories ("Twardowski", "Great-Grandfather", "The Plight of Vasylkiv", "The Starling", "The Story of Truth"). He first staged the poem "Kateryna" by Taras Shevchenko. He published several collections of songs composed mainly by himself: "Periwinkle of Ukraine" (two editions - K., 1845; St. Petersburg, 1848), "Nightingale of Vasylkiv", "Lark of Kyiv Fields". His song "The sun was already tilting towards the west" (another title is "About Love and Love") became a folk song. As a singer, he had more than 500 Ukrainian folk songs and romances in his repertoire, and performed at musical evenings and concerts in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and other cities of the Russian Empire.
