Grigori Machtet
![]() | This article does not cite any sources. (August 2008) |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Machtet.jpg/150px-Machtet.jpg)
Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet (Russian: Григорий Александрович Мачтет; Ukrainian: Григорій Олександрович Мачтет, Hryhorij Oleksandrovych Machtet) (1852, Lutsk — 1901, Yalta) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. He is the author of the well-known song "Tormented by Grievous Bondage" (Замучен тяжёлой неволей Zamučen tjažóloj nevolej).
Machtet with his associates went to America to organize a land commune there. Soon due to financial hardships he had to become a hired man. Having returned to Russia in 1874 he got involved in a revolutionary movement.
In 1876 Machtet was imprisoned to the Petropavloskaya fortress, and then exiled to Siberia.
Machtet wrote his most famous works, among which his novel "One Warrior In The Field", the story "His Hour Has Come", a series of Siberian stories, and some articles published in the "Native Stories" magazine.
- 1852 births
- 1901 deaths
- People from Lutsk
- People from Volhynian Governorate
- 19th-century Russian novelists
- Novelists of the Russian Empire
- Male writers of the Russian Empire
- Ukrainian writers
- 19th-century Russian male writers
- Ukrainian people stubs