Budzar Maryna

Family life of the Ukrainian nobility of the first quarter of the 19th century (According to the documents of the Galagan’s family from the funds of the Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine)

Section: Prosopographical studies

Abstract: The purpose of the work is to consider contextual potential of the documents from the different typological groups (particularly of special origin and judicial documents) from that part of the archive of the Galagan’s family that is kept in the funds of Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine for further reconstruction of the family life’s circumstances of the Ukrainian nobility at the beginning of the 19th century. Methodology. The study is provided on the bases of interdisciplinary methodology. The methods of source-based analysis were applied, namely for the problematic personalization of emergence conditions and authorship identification, chronology identification of a source for its content comparison with the historical realities. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the complex structural contextual analysis of a range of documents for circumstances’ reconstruction of a nobility life was performed in conjunction with the economic, political, social and cultural factors. The layers of a family life, namely economic, private-routine, socio cultural, are considered in the light of a kinship factor in the sources from the funds of Institute of Manuscript. Conclusions. The study of the family archive’s documents permits to imagine a routine family life of the Ukrainian nobility in the daily moments as well as in the crucial ones that were decisive for the whole family. A family is considered as a particular social unit within the regional community, the kinship has become a guarantee for multivariable social connections. The documents provide opportunity to identify the fates of some particular family representatives and, simultaneously, to highlight the personal traits of the family members as well as they are typological features of a great social group.

Keywords: Ukrainian nobility, Galagan’s family, family archive, 1800-1820s, kinship, family life.

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• Budzar Maryna (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine, Kyiv, [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3720-7799

Cite:
Budzar Maryna (2022). Family life of the Ukrainian nobility of the first quarter of the 19th century (According to the documents of the Galagan’s family from the funds of the Institute of Manuscript of V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine). Biographistica Ukrainica, (23) 140-159. (In Ukrainan). https://doi.org/10.15407/ub.23.140

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