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Kotlyarevsky Ivan Petrovich was a writer, playwright, the first classic of modern Ukrainian literature.

He was born on 9 September 1769 in Poltava, in the family of a small official. Later, Kotliarevsky was "granted" a noble title. In 1780, little Ivan began studying at the Poltava Theological Seminary. The boy studied humanitarian disciplines: pietism, rhetoric, philosophy, Latin, Greek, French, and German. He was interested in ancient literature, translating Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.

One of Kotliarevsky's fellow students recalled that the poet "had a passion for poetry and knew how to skilfully choose rhymes, witty and successful, for which his seminary comrades called him a rhymer."