Alexander Dukhnovych
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Alexander Vasilyevich Dukhnovych was an Transcarpathian Ruthenian priest, poet, writer, pedagogue, and social activist of the Russophile orientation. He is considered as the awakener of the Rusyns.
Alexander Dukhnovich
Topoľa
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Topoľa is a village and municipality in Snina District in the Prešov Region of north-eastern Slovakia.
Alexander Dukhnovych
…considered as the awakener (Rusyn: Будитель, Budytel’) of the Rusyns. Alexander Dukhnovych was born in the village of Topolya, Kingdom of Hungary (now Topoľa in Eastern Slovakia). The son of a Greek Catholic priest, he went to a Hungarian school in Ungvár (now Uzhhorod) (1816 to 1821). Later Alexander studied…
Cerkov svätého Michala archanjela, Topoľa, okres Snina
Main street in Topoľa, the Ulička stream at the centre
Street in Topoľa and access road to the Church of Saint Michael and communal cemetery
View of the village from the wooden church