Korobka, Mykola

Korobka, Mykola [Коробка, Микола], b 6 May 1872 in Kremenets, Volhynia gubernia, d 1921. Folklorist and literary scholar. He studied at Kyiv University and graduated from Saint Petersburg University (1894). He collected and studied the folklore of Volhynia and Podilia, publishing it as Pesni Kamenetskogo uezda, Podol'skoi gubernii (Songs of Kamianets County, Podilia Gubernia, 1895), Vostochnaia Voly'’ (Eastern Volhynia, 1895), Koliadki i shchedrovki, zapisannye v Volyn’skom Poles’e (Christmas and Epiphany Carols Recorded in Volhynian Polisia, 1901), and K izucheniiu malorusskikh koliadok (Toward a Study of Little Russian Christmas Carols, 1902). A contributor to the journals Zhivaia starina, Izvestiia otdeleniia russkogo iazyka i slovesnosti, and Russkoe bogatstvo, he also wrote a survey of the history of Russian literature (3 vols, 1907–14) and monographs on Nikolai Gogol (1902), Aleksandr Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov (1903), and Maksim Gorky (1901), and edited an uncompleted nine-volume edition of Gogol’s works (1912–14).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]