Vinskyi Grigory Stepanovich

Born in 1752, studied at the Kiev Academy, then in St. Petersburg, in the regimental school. Implicated in some kind of unpleasant situation - according to him, the innocent - he was deprived of the nobility and exiled to live in Orenburg, where, after enhanced training, became a teacher. Under Alexander I he was forgiven. On the slope of his life that he got the idea to tell his story not with the purposes of writing, but just for themselves and for their. Nevertheless Vinskyi was a writer for his time is not commonplace. "Notes" his distinguished style lively and colorful, they are no less remarkable, and its content. He gives a vivid picture of life malorossiyskogo XVIII century, the public era of Catherine II, he refers only in passing, but on the few pages of simple-minded to make judgments, precede the court of history. Notes Vinsky give an idea of how to look at reform and the grace of Catherine educated people of that time when public opinion is still its infancy. "Notes" Vinsky published in "Russian Archive", 1877, Book 1 - 2; cm. them Pypin article in the Journal of Europe ", 1877, Book 7.