Chornoivanenko I. The Skadovsky family in Social and Cultural Life of Southern Ukraine

The object of research: the process of formation of the Skadovsky generation, its functioning as a holistic system and interaction with cultural and historical environment during several generations. The aim of research: study of the Skadovsky generation as socio-cultural community, whose representatives played a prominent role in the economic, social, cultural, scientific and religious life of Southern Ukraine. The subject of research: genealogy and history of the noble Skadovsky generation, activities of some of its representatives in various spheres of social and cultural life of Southern Ukraine. The methods of research: analyze, synthesis, problem-chronological, method of prosopography. The results of research and novelty: for the first time was comprehensively analyzed the history of the Skadovsky generation as an integral socio-cultural system in spatial and temporal dimensions of Southern Ukraine of the end of eighteenth - the first third of the twentieth century (Kherson and Tavria branch). The paper shows the factors of success and the ways of self-realization of the members of the generic community in the context of family traditions and socio-political circumstances in which they had to act, prosopohrafical images of four generations of the family and the biographies of the outstanding as well as less known representatives. The socio-cultural history of the Skadovsky family locuses was reconstructed in the paper. The sphere of usage: the further research of the current subject, writing of the synthesis works, manuals, reading of the high school courses on the history of Ukraine, of historiography, of chronology.