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Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
1866–1934
A towering figure in Ukrainian history, he combined deep scholarship with public leadership at a turning point in his country’s story. Best known for his sweeping history of Ukraine and his role in the revolutionary years of 1917–1918, he helped shape how Ukrainians understood their past and imagined their future.
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Abrégé de l'histoire de l'Ukraine
by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi
About the author
Born in 1866, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi became one of the most influential Ukrainian historians of his era. He taught at Lviv University and was closely involved with the Shevchenko Scientific Society, helping build Ukrainian scholarship at a time when serious academic work in the language was still fighting for space and recognition.
His best-known achievement is the monumental multi-volume History of Ukraine-Rus', a major attempt to present Ukraine’s past as a continuous story of its own rather than a side chapter of another empire’s history. That work made him important not only as a scholar, but also as a cultural and national thinker whose writing reached far beyond the classroom.
Hrushevskyi also stepped directly into politics during the upheavals of 1917, becoming the head of the Central Rada, the leading body of the Ukrainian national movement in Kyiv. He died in 1934, but his legacy has lasted as both a historian and a public figure whose work helped define modern Ukrainian identity.