Famous Ukrainian actor and playwright; the brother of the theater figures Panas Saksahanskyi, Mykola Sadovskyi, and Mariia Sadovska-Barilotti. Ivan Karpenko-Karyi (pen name of Ivan Tobilevych) was renowned as a playwright. He began writing quite late in life: his first story, Novobranets (The New Conscript), and first play appeared in 1883. Altogether he wrote 18 frequently produced plays: the satiric comedies Rozumnyi i duren’ (The Wise Man and the Fool, 1885),... see more