Panas Saksahansky

Panas Karpovych Tobilevych, better known by the pseudonym of Panas Saksahansky, was a Ukrainian theatre actor, playwright and translator. The youngest member of the Tobilevych family of actors, Saksahansky was best known as a character actor in comedies, though he later became a playwright and theatre manager. He was a proponent of realism, and his translation of William Shakespeare's Othello (1926) served as the basis for performances of Shakespeare's works in Ukraine under the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union as a whole, though it was later lost.