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was born on the 15th of June in the town of Getomer. His father was a Government official, and belonged to a noble family. His mother was a Pole, the daughter of a professor. Korolenko was first educated in Dubno. He finished at a public school there in 1870, having won a silver medal. He has described this small town in his work, “In Bad Society.” In 1868 his father died. He was a man of exceptional honesty, and left his family in poverty. Thanks to his industrious and self-sacrificing mother, Korolenko could finish at the public school and enter the Technological Institute, but the subsidy granted by Government to his