Mykola Vasylenko

Mykola Vasylenko
Микола Василенко
Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Dorpat University
Occupation(s)	Historian, law professor
Scientific career
Fields	History of Russia
Institutions	Kyiv University Ukrainian University Kyiv Higher Female Courses
Thesis	Critical review of literature on history of Zemsky Sobor  (1890)
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Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko (Ukrainian: Микола Прокопович Василенко; 14 February 1866 – 3 October 1935)^[1] was a Ukrainian academician historian and law professor, important public and political figure. He was a temporary Otaman of Council of Ministers (Prime Minister of Ukraine), minister of Education, and director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

Biography

Mykola Vasylenko was born on 14 February [O.S. 2 February] 1866 in a village Esman (today a small settlement of Hlukhiv Raion). He finished a progymnasium in Hlukhiv and a full gymnasium in Poltava. After that Vasylenko studied at the history and philology faculty of Yuriev University (University of Tartu). In 1890 he defended his scientific work "Critical overview of literature from the history of regional assemblies" and became a candidate of Russian history.

Since 1890 Vasylenko worked as a teacher of history in Kyiv gymnasiums, simultaneously working for the Historical society of Nestor the Chronicler. At the same time he attended lectures of Volodymyr Antonovych, Volodymyr Ikonnikov, Oleksandr Lazarevsky and others in Kyiv University. Vasylenko also was co-editor and published his scientific works in magazine "Kievskaya starina" (Kyiv olden). In 1893-94 there appeared his first fundamental scientific works particularly the monograph "Servitude and the issue of servitude in Southwestern Krai".

During 1903-05 Vasylenko was a researcher for the Kyiv Governorate Statistic Committee. He also was a member of Kyiv Old

Around that time in 1910 Vasylenko joined the Constitutional Democratic Party that agreed to Ukrainian language in schools, courts, churches and promoted only the cultural autonomy of Ukraine. Affiliation to Kadets affected relationships of Vasylenko with activists of Ukrainian national-liberation movement.

After the

External links

• "Василенко, Николай Прокофьевич". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 86 Volumes (82 Volumes and 4 Additional Volumes). St. Petersburg. 1890–1907.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Mykola Vasylenko at the
  Kyiv University
  website
• Mykola Vasylenko at the Encyclopedic handbook Kyiv (web version)
• Mykola Vasylenko at the Heritage of Ukraine portal (Spadshchyna Ukrayiny)