Sofija Rusova

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2005 donated Rusaowa Medal with the portrait of Sofija Rusowa

Sofija Fedoriwna Rusowa ( Ukrainian Софія Федорівна Русова * February 6 . Jul / 18th February  1856 greg. In Oleschnja , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire , † 5 February 1940 in Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) was a Ukrainian educator , social - and education activist, writer , historian , anthropologist , art historian , literary critic and a founder of the Ukrainian women's movement .

Life

Sofija Rusowa was born on her father's estate in Oleschnja in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast Chernihiv as the fifth child of Colonel of the Russian Army Fyodor Lindfors of Swedish origin and his wife Anna, the daughter of General Alexander Karlovich Scherwe ( Александр Карловерч 1779–1858). In 1865 the family moved to Kiev , where Sofija went to school and graduated from the Funduklej Girls' High School in Kiev.

On August 30, 1874 she became the wife of the Ukrainian statistician, anthropologist, folklorist and social activist Oleksandr Russow ( Олександр Олександрович Русов 1847–1915)

After the Bolsheviks came to power in Ukraine, she emigrated to Czechoslovakia . She died on February 5, 1940 in Prague and was buried in the Olšanské cemetery there.

Honors

In 2005 the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine donated a medal named after Rusaowa to be awarded to educators who have made a significant contribution to the development of preschool and school education. The Ukrainian National Bank issued a two hryvnia commemorative coin on its 160th birthday in 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on May 15, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b biography of Sofija Rusowa on tsikave.ostriv; accessed on May 15, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c Biography Sofija Rusowa on library.kr.ua; accessed on May 15, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ family tree Alexander Scherwe ; accessed on May 15, 2016
  5. ↑ biography Sofia Rusowa on lib.mdpu; accessed on May 15, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Ordinance of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the award of the Rusowa Medal in 2005; accessed on May 15, 2016 (Ukrainian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nenc.gov.ua

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Ukrainian language Wikipedia has an article on Olexander Russow under Русов Олександр Олександрович
personal data
SURNAME Rusowa, Sofija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ру́сова, Софі́я Фе́дорівна (Ukrainian); Rusowa, Sofija Fedorivna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian educator, social and educational activist, writer, historian, anthropologist, art historian, literary critic and a founder of the women's movement
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Oleschnja , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1940
Place of death Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia