Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko
Ukrainian historian
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- PhD History Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Masters History Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Bachelors History Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nataliia Polonska-Vasylenko was one of the foremost Ukrainian historians of the 20th century. She was a wife of the Ukrainian academician of history and statesman Mykola Vasylenko. Life and career Polonska-Vasylenko belonged to Russian nobility; her father was a Russian Imperial officer Dmytro Menshov . Polonska-Vasylenko studied history under Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky at Kyiv University and from 1912 was a member of the Kyiv-based Historical Society of Nestor the Chronicler. From 1916, she was a lecturer at Kyiv University and Director of its archeological museum. During the 1920s, the most liberal years of Soviet rule, she was a professor at the Kyiv Institutes of Geography, Archeology, and Art, and a research associate at the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences . She witnessed, but survived, the Joseph Stalin purges of the 1930s and was a member of the reorganized and Sovietized academy from 1937 to 1941. In 1940, she received her doctorate and became a professor at Kyiv University. During the German occupation, she directed the Kyiv Central Archive of Old Documents and worked in Kyiv City Administration, was responsible for renaming of streets and consulted Kyiv Archive Museum of Transitional Period . As the tide of the war turned against the Germans, she fled west, first to Lviv, then to Prague, and finally to Bavaria. She was a professor at the Ukrainian Free University in Prague , and moved together with this institution to Munich, where she continued to teach until her death in 1973. In the 1960s, she took an active part in the establishment of the American-Based Ukrainian Historical Association and was its vice-president from 1965.
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