Київські історичні студії (Dec 2022)
Pages from the biography of Anastasia Grinchenko: the tragic 1908 and the end of the “Lubny case”
Abstract
The article, based on extensive involvement of archival documentary, epistolary and memoir sources, analyzes individual pages of the life and activities of Anastasia (Nastya) Grinchenko, the only daughter of Ukrainian writers and public figures Borys and Maria Grinchenko, in her last years. Based on family correspondence and memories of members of the Grinchenko family, letters of N. Sakharova (M. Sakharov's mother) to A. Grinchenko, as well as memoirs of the participants and participants of the "The Lubny self-defense", the events related to the trial in the case of self-defense, the participants were investigated which was A. Grinchenko and M. Sakharov. The moral and psychological atmosphere in the Grinchenko family in 1907-1909, which developed in connection with the daughter's arrest, house searches, M. Grinchenko's illness, Anastasia's premature death, and the course of the court case, was reproduced. Little-known events related to birth of Anastasia's son Volodymyr and Borys Grinchenko's intentions to adopt a grandson after his daughter's death were recreated. The relations in the Grinchenko family, which were based on the principles of mutual respect, friendship and love were shown. It was noted that the tragic events of 1908-1909 in the life of the Grinchenko family did not break the moral strength of the family members. Assessments of Nastya Grinchenko's activity in the Ukrainian social and political movement of the beginning of the 20th century, on the basis of her obituaries published in Galician and Trans-Dnieper magazines and newspapers, as well as letters and memories of people close to the Grinchenkos were reproduced. It is concluded that the researched part of the biography of A. Grinchenko and the history of her family and surroundings can more fully reproduce the little-known "internal" history of the development of the Ukrainian social and political movement at the beginning of the 20th century.
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