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| birth_place = [[Perekhodivka]], [[Nezhinsky Uyezd]], [[Chernigov Governorate]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1900|12|12|1836|8|18}}
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| occupation = [[Interpreter]], writer, [[lexicography|lexicograph]], [[pedagogue]], poet, and [[civil activist]]
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Konysky was born in the village [[Perekhodivka]] (today [[Nizhyn Raion]], [[Chernihiv Oblast]]). He was of the old [[Chernihiv principality]] heritage that had over 400 years. The future writer grew up in the city of [[Nizhyn]], about which he worded as such: "Nizhyn is a small city. At the same time it was the center of enlightenment of the ''Chernihiv lands'' and the north of the ''Poltava lands''. Here was located the [[Bezborodko Lyceum]]. Beside that Nizhyn had a glorious historic past and especially in trade therefore among its people were plenty of ''distinguished'' one."
His first publication was in the ''[[Chernigovsky Listok]]'' in 1858. In [[Poltava]] and [[
Konysky also kept ties with the Ukrainian activists of [[Halychyna]] for which he was charged as ''[[Little Russia|Little-Russian]]'' propaganda activist and without trials in 1863 he was sent to [[Vologda]]. His novel ''Ne daruy zolotom i ne bytyi molotom'' ({{lang-uk|Не даруй золотом і не бий молотом}}) in 1871 was confiscated and destroyed by a local police. From 1865 Konysky resided beyond the borders of the [[Russian Empire]] where came in closer ties the Ukrainian activist of [[Halychyna]]. In 1872 after the release out of the police supervision he returned to [[
Influenced by the [[Brotherhood of Tarasovs]] in 1897 as member of [[Stara Hromada]] together with [[Volodymyr Antonovych]] he initiated the creation of the [[All-Ukrainian Public Organization]] as the civil-political fellowship that had to unite all circles of the nationally conscious [[Ukrainians]]. As the organization's publication source he found the ''[[Vik publication]]'' that existed for 15 years and released over 100 books in [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]]. Konysky died in [[Kyiv]].
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