Shevchenko A. The Goshkevich family in the socio-cultural life of Ukraine

The purpose of the research is to study the history of the Hoshkevych family as a social and cultural community and its interaction with the cultural and historical environment for several generations. The academic novelty of the research lies in the attempt to reconstruct the Hoshkevych dynasty; the determination of the factors of the Hoshkevychs’ social status and professional activity transformation in the post-reformation period. The polarization of political orientations of the Hoshkevych family members due to the crisis of the Russian Empire and the establishment of Soviet power was analyzed on the basis of some examples; the Family Archive of Leonid Hoshkevych’s family, which is stored in the funds of the Kherson Regional Universal Scientific Library named after Oles Honchar, was analyzed for the first time. Most of the original documents are provided as annexes to the dissertation; intellectual biographies of Viktor Hoshkevych and Iryna Fabricius were reconstructed for the first time; a number of little-known archival sources on Hoshkevych’s network connections were updated, which allowed to inscribe the history of the family in the context of the social, cultural and public life of Ukraine in the 18th – first half of the 20th century. The practical significance of the dissertation research lies in the possibility of using materials contained herein in the preparation of scientific studies in historiography, history of archaeology, history of Ukraine, local lore, family history, history of the Orthodox Church, museology, history of Ukrainian journalism and in the creation of relevant generalizing papers.