Eugene Porfirovych Archipenko ( uk, Євген Порфирович Архипенко) (1884–1959) was a

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, and

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. Archipenko was born in

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in the

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to Porfiry Antonowych Archipenko and Poroskowia Vassylivna Machowa. He was the older brother to sculptor

Alexander Archipenko Alexander Porfyrovych Archipenko (also referred to as Olexandr, Oleksandr, or Aleksandr; uk, Олександр Порфирович Архипенко, Romanized: Olexandr Porfyrovych Arkhypenko; February 25, 1964) was a Ukrainian and American ...

. In his young adulthood, Eugene Archipenko was employed as a

and from 1906 to 1909 published the periodical ''Українське бджільництво'' ("''Ukrainian Beekeeper''"). Archipenko taught

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at St Vladimir University in

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and published a number of textbooks on agronomy and beekeeping. From 1919 to 1920 Archipenko was a minister of Agrarian Affairs in the

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of the

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. In 1921, he was forced into exile. He lived in

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from 1944 and died in Dornstadt,

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. His large archive is housed at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of textbooks on beekeeping and scientific works on heraldry. Bytynsky and others. Drawings of coats of arms were sometimes made by the famous painter V. Krychevsky. A few years before his death he started publishing the magazine "Peasant of Ukraine"

References

*T.S. Ostashko, "Eugene Porfirovych Archipenko", ''Handbook of the History of Ukraine'' (1993). 1884 births 1959 deaths Land cultivation ministers of Ukraine People's economy ministers of Ukraine Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Ukrainian beekeepers Ukrainian publishers (people) Ukrainian agronomists Ukrainian exiles Ukrainian emigrants to Germany People from Kaharlyk {{ukraine-bio-stub