Lyzohub family

Monument to Illya and Andriy Lyzohubs in Sedniv, Chernihiv Oblast

Lyzohub (Ukrainian: Лизогуби, Russian: Лизогубы) is a Ukrainian family of the Cossack Hetmanate and later Ukraine.^[1] Over the years many representatives of the family placed high government positions during various period of the Ukrainian statehood.

Notable family members

• Ivan Kindratovych Lyzohub (? - after 1662), colonel of Kaniv and Uman regiments, envoy of Ivan Vyhovsky to the Muscovy, participant of the Battle of Konotop, executed on orders of Yuri Khmelnytsky
• Yakiv Kindrotovych Lyzohub (?–1698), colonel of Kaniv regiment
• Yakiv Yukhymovych Lyzohub (1675–1749) - Quartermaster General, acting hetman, member of the Governing Council of the Hetman Office
• Fedir Andriyovych Lyzohub (1862–1928), a Prime Minister of Ukraine (1918)

Daughter of Ivan Skoropadsky, Iryna was married to Semen Yukhymovych Lyzohub (brother of Yakiv Lyzohub) and had a son Semen Semenovych Lyzohub. Semen Lyzohub had a daughter Tetyana who married Opanas Hohol-Yanovsky, a grandfather of Nikolai Gogol (Mykola Hohol).

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Gallery

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  Private manor in Sedniv, in front is a Shevchenko monument
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  Portrait of Andriy Lyzohub by Taras Shevchenko, 1847
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  Portrait of Illya Lyzohub by Taras Shevchenko, 1847
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  Dormition Cathedral of the Yelets Monastery contains tomb of Yakiv Lyzohub
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  Lyzohub House in Chernihiv, regional (polk) chancellery

See also

• Doroshenko family

External links

• Syundyukov, I. Then I am going to Sednev.... Newspaper Den. 25 November 2005
• Regimental chancellery. Chernihiv. Castles and Temples of Ukraine.
• Sedniv. Castles and Temples of Ukraine.

References