Petro Dmytrovych Seletskyi (14 March 1821, Maliutintsi - 17 March 1880) was a government official of the Kyiv Governor-General's Office, composer and pianist.
He was a member of the Cossack family of Seletsky. He was the owner of the village of Malyutintsy, Pyriatyn district. He received a good musical education. He consulted F. Liszt on piano playing, and in Leipzig he communicated with F. Mendelssohn.
He was an official of the Kyiv Governor-General's Office (from 1844), Kyiv vice-governor (1858 - 1866), Kyiv governor, and marshal of the nobility (1866 - 1880).
He had known Taras Shevchenko (through the Repnin princes) since 1843, and in 1845 they were supposed to work together on the opera Mazepa, but they disagreed on historical events, which affected their further relationship: Seletsky was in charge of secret surveillance of Shevchenko during his stay in Kyiv in 1859.
In 1863, he was one of the organisers of the Kyiv branch of the Russian Musical Society, its first chairman (for 10 years).
Author of "Notes" published in "Kyivska Staryna" in 1884 (parts 2-9).
