Georgiy Afanasyev ( uk, Георгій Омелянович Афанасьєв; 28 February 1848,

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– 15 December 1925,

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. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918). Received a master's degree for his thesis: "The main points of the ministerial Turgot" (1884); and his doctoral dissertation was: "The Conditions of the Grain Trade in

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at the End of the 18th Century" (1892). From 1888 he lectured at the

Odessa University Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University ( uk, Одеський національний університет Iмені І. І. Мечникова, translit=Odeskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni I. I. Mechnykova), located in Odesa, Ukraine, i ...

. He read in Odessa and Kiev.

Professional career and experience

Georgiy Afanasyev graduated from the Faculty of Philology of

(1869). His main research interests are: history of ancient Egypt, the history of the Slavs and the Russian Empire, medieval and modern history of Britain and France, Russian literature and economics. Since 1879 the cathedral Privatdozent at

universal history, while in the years 1879-1912 correspondent

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a number of magazines and newspapers. In 1884 he defended his thesis and published a dedicated Turgotowi, in 1892 dissertation grain trading conditions in France in the 18th century. Some of his works have been published in

and

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. The recommendation of

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. Branch of directed until 1918. One of his achievements was the construction of the new headquarters branch, opened in 1905 (now the headquarters of the

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). In the state controller Fedir Lyzohub government (from 3 May to 24 October 1918). After the declaration of

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Hetman of a federal state relationship with Russia, November 14, 1918, appointed to the post of

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/ref> in the Serhiy Gerbel government, a function held to fall as a result of the Ukrainian State directed against him rise and take power by the Directorate (14 December 1918). After the fall of Hetmanatu went to

, published in the newspaper Odesa lyst. Emigrated to the Kingdom of SHS, taught history at the

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Faculty of Philology. He died in

. Part of his legacy is in the department of manuscripts of the National Library of Ukraine.

Publications

* "The fate of Ireland", Odessa, 1887 * "Foreign Policy of Napoleon III", Odessa, 1885.

References

External links

Afanasyev George Yemelianovich

The history of Ukraine's modern foreign service
* Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc. Paris—New-York, 1955 * ''Афанасьєв Георгій (Юрій) Омелянович'': ''Енциклопедія історії України'': Т. 1. Редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. НАН України. Інститут історії України. – Київ 2003, «Наукова думка». * ''Афанасьєв Юрій'' w: ''Енциклопедія українознавства'', Львів 2000, , t.1 s. 77. {{DEFAULTSORT:Afanasyev, Georgiy 1848 births 1925 deaths Politicians from Ufa People from Ufimsky Uyezd Foreign ministers of Ukraine Members of the Central Council of Ukraine Ukrainian diplomats 19th-century Ukrainian journalists 19th-century Ukrainian historians 20th-century Ukrainian journalists Odesa University alumni Academic staff of Odesa University People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism Writers from Ufa