Ihor Kistakivskyi

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Ihor Kistjakivskyj (1909)
Kistyakivskyj during his studies at the Kiev St. Vladimir University

Ihor Oleksandrowytsch Kistjakiwskyj ( Ukrainian Ігор Олександрович Кістяківський , Russian Игорь Александрович Кистяковский Igor Alexandrovich Kistjakowski ; born January 4, jul. / 16th January  1876 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 14. September 1940 in Paris , French Republic ) was a Ukrainian lawyer and Minister of Interior of the Ukrainian State .

Life

Ihor Kistjakiwskyj was born in Kiev in 1875 as the youngest son of the Ukrainian criminalist and legal scholar Oleksandr Kistjakiwskyj ( Олександр Федорович Кістяківський ; 1833–1885).

In 1897 he graduated from the law faculty of St. Vladimir University with a gold medal for his work on the history of Rome , whereupon he received a scholarship to study Roman law and civil law , which he perceived, among other things, at German universities. He then briefly taught law at Kiev University from 1900 and had well-networked connections to the Ukrainian national liberation movement, including Volodymyr Antonowytsch and Pavlo Schytezkyj . To practice law, he went to Moscow in 1903 where, as a sworn lawyer, he was one of the closest employees of the lawyer and chairman of the first State Duma of the Russian Empire, Sergei Muromzew , and between 1903 and 1910 he taught at the Imperial Moscow University , which he, in protest against the violation of university autonomy by the Russian Minister of Education Lev Kasso (1865-1914), together with Vladimir Wernadski and other professors. He then taught at the Moscow Trade Institute from 1910 to 1917 . He was a member of the constitutional Democratic Party and an active member of the Masonic lodge The Great East of the Peoples of Russia and, as a successful and wealthy civil lawyer, a philanthropist of Ukraine. So in 1912 he was one of the initiators of the restoration of the magazine Юридический вестник Juriditscheski westnik , whose editor was his brother Bohdan Kistjakowskyj.

After the October Revolution he returned to Kiev and in May 1918 became State Secretary in the hetmanate of Pavlo Skoropadskyj and deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation to negotiate an armistice with Soviet Russia . On July 5th of the same year he became Minister of the Interior of the Ukrainian State , succeeding Fedir Lysohub . Together with other ministers, including Dmytro Doroshenko and Alexander Ragosa , he advocated an independent Ukraine and rejected a federation, even with a non- Bolshevik Russia. After the collapse of independent Ukraine, he fled to Istanbul in 1919 , where he worked as a lawyer and supported refugees from Russia. He later emigrated to Paris, where he was active in the Russian white emigrant community. He died in Paris and was buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois . The dates of his death vary between June 1940, September 14, 1940 and June 1941.

Kistyakivskyj was the author of several Russian-language legal works. Among other things, he wrote about the inheritance obligations for debts in Roman law (1900) and about the concept of the legal subject (1903).

family

Ihor was the younger brother of the chemist Volodymyr Kistjakivskyj ( Володимир Олександрович Кістяківський ; 1865–1952) and the legal philosopher and sociologist Bohdan Kistjakivskyj ( Богдокийjak іс19 явлс19 Богдоакиjak іс19 . He was also the nephew of the Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist, historian, geographer and journalist Pavlo Chubynskyj (1839-1884) and the cousin of the Ukrainian-American chemist and head of the explosion department at Los Alamos National Laboratory George Bogdan Kistiakowsky (1900-1982).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Entry on Kistiakovsky, Ihor in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 29, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c Ihor Kistjakiwskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 29, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d Entry on Ihor Kistjakiwskyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on March 29, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Entry on Ihor Kistjakiwskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 29, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Kistakivskyi, Ihor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kistjakiwskyj, Ihor Oleksandrovytsch (full name); Кістяківський, Ігор Олександрович (Ukrainian); Кистяковский, Игорь Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian lawyer and Minister of Interior of the Ukrainian State
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1940
Place of death Paris , French state