Petro Stebnyzkyj

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Petro Stebnyzkyj 1915

Petro Januarijowytsch Stebnyzkyj ( Ukrainian Петро Януарійович Стебницький , Russian Пётр Януарьевич Стебницкий Pyotr Januarjewitsch Stebnizki * 25. November 1862 in Horenytschi , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 14. March 1923 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian politician, writer, journalist and publicist . In 1918 he was Minister of Education of the Ukrainian State and also wrote under the pseudonyms P. Smutok, A. Irpensky, Malorossiianin, Maloross, P. Khmara, PS and S-ii .

Life

Petro Stebnyzkyj was born in the village of Horenytschi in today's Kyiv-Svyatoshyn district of the Ukrainian Oblast, the son of the village pastor Januarius Stebnyzkyj. He first attended the local parish school and then graduated from the first high school in Kiev . Subsequently, he studied from 1881 at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of St. Vladimir University in Kiev , which he graduated in 1888 as a candidate for mathematical sciences .

After moving to Saint Petersburg , he worked there between 1889 and 1904 in the Ministry of Finance, where he became a staff advisor on July 30, 1891, and from 1904 to 1917 he was the head of the commercial department of the editorial department of the trade and telegraph agency. In addition to his work in the civil service, he wrote articles on economic topics for various newspapers and over time he became one of the leading figures in the Ukrainian community of Saint Petersburg. He headed the local branch of the Ukrainian Progressive Society ( Товариство Українських Поступовців "ТУП" ). and founded in 1898 together with Oleksandr Lotozkyj the Charitable Community for publication generally more useful and cheaper books ( Благодійне товариство видання загальнокорисних і дешевих книг Blahodijne towarystwo wydannja sahalnokorysnych i deschewych knyh ), the Ukrainian primarily literature such as works of Taras Shevchenko and of M. Hruschewskyj published encyclopedia Ukrainian people in the past and present . He also worked as a journalist for several Ukrainian newspapers. During the Russian Revolution from 1905 to 1907 he helped members of the Ukrainian parliamentary groups in the 1st State Duma and 2nd State Duma of the Russian Empire.

After the February Revolution of 1917 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists and Federalists and in July 1917 he was declared chairman of the Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd by the Ukrainian Central Na Rada . In this position, he tried to normalize relations between the Provisional Government and the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Central Na Rada . Between June and November 1917 he was State Secretary for Ukrainian Affairs in the Provisional Government . For the Provisional Government, together with Oleksandr Lototskyj, he prepared a memorandum on the urgent satisfaction of the national interests of the Ukrainian people, which he submitted to the Ukrainian National Council in the presence of Prime Minister Georgi Lvov .

In June 1918 he moved to Kiev in the Ukraine, where he had lively correspondence with leading figures of the Ukrainian national movement, including Mychajlo Hruschewskyj, Symon Petljura , Serhij Jefremow and Mykola Porsch . On July 16, 1918, he was appointed Senator of the Senate Administrative Court. In August 1918 he was deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the peace negotiations with Soviet Russia . On October 24th, he was appointed Minister of Education and Art in the government of the Ukrainian State of Fedir Lysohub by Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyj , succeeding Mykola Wassylenko . In this post, which he held until November 14, 1918, he signed, among other things, a decree establishing the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . On January 11, 1919, he was appointed the highest judge of the People's Republic by the Directory of the Ukrainian People 's Republic.

After the Soviet troops conquered Kiev in January 1919 and founded the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Petro Stebnyzkyj fell victim to repression by the new rulers in the spring of 1919. His home was ransacked and he was arrested with common criminals. After his release from prison, he suffered from emaciation and fell ill in the following years, so that he spent the last months of his life in a hospital in Pechersk and finally died at the age of 60 in his apartment at 37 Volodymyrska Street .

Honors

  • In 1896 he received the silver medal in memory of Alexander III. that was worn on the chest with an Alexander bracelet.
  • In 1908 he was granted the right to bear the Ministry of Finance's emblem for trade and agriculture services.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Stebnytsky, Petro in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on May 6, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c Entry on Petro Stebnyzkyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on May 6, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Entry on Petro Stebnyzkyj on the website of the Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine ; accessed on May 6, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b Petro Stebnyzkyj in ukrainians-world ; accessed on May 6, 2019 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Stebnyzkyj, Petro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stebnyzkyj, Petro Januarijowytsch (full name); PS; Smutok, P .; Irpensky, A .; Malorossiianin, maloross; Khmara, P .; S-ii, petro; Стебницький, Петро Януарійович (Ukrainian); Стебницкий, Пётр Януарьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian politician, writer, journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Horenytschi , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1923
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR