Taras Shevchenko, the historian Mykola Kostomarov, the writer Panteleimon Kulish, and many others. The library of Kyiv University is named in his honour. Further reading Dmytro Doroshenko, "A Survey of Ukrainian Historiography", Annals of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the US, Vol. V-VI (1957), section on Maksymovych, pp. 119–23. George S. N. Luckyj, Between Gogol and Ševčenko: Polarity in the Literary Ukraine, 1798-1847 (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1971), passim. Good on his relations with Gogol, Shevchenko, Kulish, and Kostomarov. Mykhailo Maksymovych, Kyiv iavilsia gradom velikim (Kyiv: Lybid, 1994). Contains a collection of Maksymovych's writings on Ukraine, his brief autobiography, and a biographical introduction by V. Zamlynsky. Texts in Ukrainian and Russian. Mykhailo Hrushevsky, "'Malorossiiskie pesni' Maksymovycha i stolittia ukrainskoi naukovoi pratsi", ["The 'Little Russian Songs' of Maksymovych and the Centennial of Ukrainian Scholarly Work"] Ukraina, no.6 (1927), 1-13; reprinted in Ukrainskyi istoryk, XXI, 1-4 (1984), 132-147. Incisive and important essay by the most famous of modern Ukrainian historians. M. B. Tomenko, "'Shchyryi Malorosiianyn': Vydatnyi vchenyi Mykhailo Maksymovych", ['A Sincere Little Russian': The Outstanding Scholar Mykhailo Maksymovych] in Ukrainska ideia. Pershi rechnyky (Kyiv: Znannia, 1994), pp. 80–96, An excellent short sketch. M. Zh., "Movoznavchi pohliady M. O. Maksymovycha", Movoznavstvo, no. 5 (1979), 46-50. Makes the claim that Maksymovych was one of the first to recognise the threefold division of the Slavic languages. Article on Maksymovych, in the Dovidnyk z istorii Ukrainy, ed. I. Pidkova and R. Shust (Kyiv: Heneza, 2002), pp. 443–4. Also available on-line. References External links Mykhailo Maksymovych on Encyclopedia of Ukraine website Максимович Михаил Александрович на сайте проекта «Хронос» 1804 births 1873 deaths People from Cherkasy Oblast People from Poltava Governorate Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire 19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire Historians from the Russian Empire Writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century Ukrainian historians Ukrainian folklorists Ukrainianists Moscow State University alumni Academic staff of Moscow State University Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Rectors of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv