 Another son, Mykhailo (the writer's father), studied at the Podolsk seminary, which was then founded in Shargorod.From there, as one of the best students, he was sent to study at the Medical and Surgical Academy in Moscow (after training he became one of the best doctors at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor).Before the war of 1812 he signed in Ukrainian - "Mykhailo" and only during the war, when he worked as a military doctor, he began to sign in Russian - "Mikhail".