Natalka Poltavka is a Ukrainian play written by Ivan Kotliarevsky.
Scene from Natalka Poltavka on the Kotlyarevsky monument in Poltava (sculptor L. Pozen (1903))
Image of Natalka Poltavka in Kharkov's digest «The Morning Star» (Утренняя звезда). 1834.
Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature. Kotliarevsky was a veteran of the Russo-Turkish War.
Ivan Kotliarevsky
The first edition of Kotliarevsky's Eneida, 1798.