The Lyzohub family (; Russian: ''Лизогубы''; also spelled as ''Lizohub, Lisohub, Lizogub'') was a Ukrainian family of the

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. For years many members of the family held high offices in the Ukrainian government.

Origins

There are two versions of the origins of the Lyzohub family. One claims they descended from the Kobyzewicz family who were Lithuanian boyars. According to the historian Volodymyr Antonovych who referred to the chronicles of the Lyzohub family, the family was descended from a Cossack Klym Lyzohub who was killed in action in the battle of Lviv in 1648.Ервін Міден. ЖИТТЄПИС ЯКОВА КІНДРАТОВИЧА ЛИЗОГУБА//Juvenia studia : Збірник студентських наукових праць. Випуск 5. / Інститут історії, етнології та правознавства імені О. М. Лазаревського. – Чернігів : Десна Поліграф, 2015. C. 45. The first version was further developed by Ukrainian historians A. Lazarevsky, V. Lukomsky and H. Myloradovych. According to them, Kondratii Ivanovych Kobyzewicz (Kobyzenko), a Cossack of Helmiaziv of the Pereiaslav regiment, supposedly acquired the nickname of Lyzohub.Ервін Міден. ЖИТТЄПИС ЯКОВА КІНДРАТОВИЧА ЛИЗОГУБА//Juvenia studia : Збірник студентських наукових праць. Випуск 5. / Інститут історії, етнології та правознавства імені О. М. Лазаревського. – Чернігів : Десна Поліграф, 2015. C. 44. The family supposedly had an estate at Vylychky, near Chernihiv. I. Kondratiev and V. Krivoshey attributed Kondratii Lyzohub to the

Liubech Liubech ( Ukrainian and Russian: ; ) is a rural settlement in Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. Liubech is located north of the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and located near the border with Belarus. It hosts the administration of Liubech settl ...

gentry (

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). Kondratii Lyzohub supposedly had a daughter named Christiana, and sons: Yakiv, Ivan and Klym. The researcher Erwin Miden, a post-graduate student of the Chernihiv National Pedagogical University, has debunked the myth of the Lyzohub family's descent from the Kobyzewicz clan. He has also showcased in his article on Colonel Ivan Lyzohub, that his Polish nobility was fabricated by his descendants in the 18th century. The patent supposedly given to Ivan Lyzohub (under the name of Jan Kobyzewicz) by King Jan Casimir Vasa in 1661 only exists in the copy submitted to the Chernihiv Nobility Assembly by

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Yakiv Lyzohub in 1799.Ервін Міден
ПОЛКОВНИК КАНІВСЬКИЙ ІВАН КІНДРАТОВИЧ ЛИЗОГУБ/
Сiверянський Лiтопис. Травень-червень, 2018№3 (141). С. 15. E. Miden has showcased that the document was fabricated as no record regarding the ennoblement of Ivan Lyzohub exists in the archive of the Warsaw General Sejm of 1661, which was to confirm such ennoblement. Amongst the papers submitted by Yakiv Lyzohub in 1799 was a patent of nobility supposedly given to their progenitor, the assumed father of Cossack Kondratii Lyzohub, Ivan Lyzohub, in 1642 by King Jan Casimir Vasa, when he entered the throne only in 1648. Ivan (Jan) Kondratovych Kobyzewicz-Lyzohub was the colonel of the

Uman Uman (, , ) is a city in Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. It is located to the east of Vinnytsia. Located in the east of the historical region of Podolia, the city rests on the banks of the Umanka River. Uman serves as the administrative c ...

and Kaniv Cossack regiments. In 1658 he represented Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky in

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. Brothers Ivan and Yakiv Lyzohub sought Moscow nobility. They acquired Moscow nobility (dvorianstvo) before 1667 for spying for the Moscow government. Yakiv Kondratovych Lyzohub became the colonel of the Kaniv Cossack regiment in 1665. In 1667 he led an embassy of Hetman I. Briukhovetsky to Moscow, where he received a patent of nobility. In 1669—1674 he was the yesaul general of the Cossack army, and in 1670—1673 — an interim

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. As the colonel of Chernihiv, Yakiv Lyzohub took over the lands of his predecessor, H. Samoilovych, including the estate of Sedniv that had become the family's main seat.Ервін Міден. ЖИТТЄПИС ЯКОВА КІНДРАТОВИЧА ЛИЗОГУБА//Juvenia studia : Збірник студентських наукових праць. Випуск 5. / Інститут історії, етнології та правознавства імені О. М. Лазаревського. – Чернігів : Десна Поліграф, 2015. C. 47. Yakiv Kondratovych Lyzohub is claimed to be the father of Yukhym Lyzohub, the Chernihiv Cossack colonel, who married the daughter of Hetman Petro Doroshenko, Liubov. Their son, Yakiv Lyzohub, became the family's most famed member.

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 Yurii 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

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(1918)

Relation to Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

's grandmother was Tetiana Lyzohub, the daughter of the Chernihiv landlord Semyon Semenovych Lyzohub. Tetiana Lyzohub was a great-granddaughter of Hetman Petro Doroshenko and a granddaughter of Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky. She secretly married her teacher Afanasii Yanovsky. A connection to the Lyzohub family allowed Afanasii Yanovsky to pursue military career. Later, he made himself ennobled as a claimant to the descent from Hetman Ostap Gogol.

Gallery

File:Manor Lyzohub. Sedniv.JPG, Private manor in Sedniv, in front is a Shevchenko monument File:Sgevchenko portret Lyzohub.jpg, Portrait of Andriy Lyzohub by

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

, 1847 File:Shevchenko Taras portret Lyzohub.jpg, Portrait of Illya Lyzohub by

, 1847 File:Успенський собор - Чернігів 1.jpg, Dormition Cathedral of the Yelets Monastery contains tomb of Yakiv Lyzohub Кам'яниця Лизогубів, Седнів, Чернігівщина.jpg, Lyzohubs' Stone House in Sedniv File:Будинок полкової канцелярії - Чернігів 1.jpg, Lyzohub House in

Chernihiv Chernihiv (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is The city was designated as a Hero City of Ukraine ...

, regional (polk) chancellery

External links

* Syundyukov, I.
Then I am going to Sednev...
'. Newspaper Den. 25 November 2005

Castles and Temples of Ukraine.

Castles and Temples of Ukraine.

References

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