Oleksandr Lazarevskyi

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Oleksandr Lasarewskyj 1858 and 1865

Oleksandr Matwijowytsch Lasarewskyj ( Ukrainian Олександр Матвійович Лазаревський , Russian Александр Матвеевич Лазаревский Alexander Matveyevich Lazarevsky ; born June 8 . Jul / 20th June  1834 greg. In Hyrjawka , Ujesd Konotop , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † March 31 jul. / 13 April  1902 greg. In Kiev , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian historian .

Life

Oleksandr Lasarewskyj was born in Hyrjawka, today's Shevchenkoe in the Ukrainian Oblast of Sumy , as the son of a small aristocratic family descended from Cossacks and the younger brother of Wassyl Lasarewskyj . He studied from August 1854 to 1858 at the historical-philological faculty of St. Petersburg University . At the end of March 1858 he took Taras Shevchenko in after he had returned from his exile to Saint Petersburg, before he moved into a workshop at the Russian Art Academy . In February 1861, Lazarevskyj published the “Reglement” and the “Manifesto for the Abolition of Serfdom”, with which he gained notoriety, and in April 1861 he accompanied the body of Taras Shevchenko to the Ukraine together with the artist Hryhorij Chestachiwskyj .

On June 7, 1865 he received the position of Provincial Secretary and on June 21, 1865 he was appointed Secretary of the Statistical Committee of the Chernigov Governorate. From this time on, he was able to start his scientific and archival work and implement it on a large scale. From 1868 he was a judge in Chernigov , Poltava and Kremenchuk . From April 1874 he was a member of the Nischyn District Court and from 1879 he was chairman of the Kursk District Court. From May 1880 he was the chairman of the Kiev District Court and in December 1885 he was elected a member of the Kiev Judicial Chamber and remained so until the end of his life. In Kiev he became an active member of the Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler ( Киевское общество летописца Нестора ) and one of the founders of the magazine Kievskaya staryna ( Кіевская старина ), which he was editor in 1890/1891. Lazarevskyi died in Kiev at the age of 57 and was buried at his birthplace.

Oleksandr Lasarewskyj was the father of the Ukrainian writer Borys Lasarewskyj (1871-1936), the Ukrainian literary critic Hlib Lasarewskyj (1877-1949) and the historian and archaeologist Kateryna Lasarewska (1879-1939)

The brothers Fedir and Oleksandr Lasarewskyj; Taras Shevchenko 1849

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Between 1880 and 1902 Lazarevskyi published 340 works and collections of documents. His works mainly dealt with the history of left-bank Ukraine in the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries. Oleksandr Lasarewskyj was a close friend and one of the first biographers of the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko.

Honors

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Oleksandr Lasarewskyj in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on March 7, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Oleksandr Lasarewskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 7, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Article in the Shevchenko dictionary ; accessed on August 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Entry on the Lasarewskyj family in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on September 14, 2018
  5. ^ Entry on Oleksandr Lasarewskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 7, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Entry on Lazarevsky, Oleksander in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Lazarevskyj, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lasarewskyj, Oleksandr Matwijowytsch (full name); Лазаревський, Олександр Матвійович (Ukrainian); Лазаревский, Александр Матвеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Russian historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyrjawka , Ujesd Konotop , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1902
Place of death Kiev , Russian Empire