Stelletsky, Mykola

Stelletsky, Mykola [Стеллецький, Микола; Stellec'kyj], b 1862 in Kharkiv gubernia, d 1919 in Sumy, Kharkiv gubernia. Priest and scholar. A graduate of the Kyiv Theological Academy, he published articles on a variety of religious, theological, and philosophical topics—including the role of Kyiv as a religious center, the history of Kharkiv College, and Hryhorii Skovoroda—in Trudy Kievskoi dukhovnoi akademii, Vera i razum, and other journals. He later became a professor at Kharkiv University. He was killed by the Bolsheviks in 1919.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]