About Mykhailo Hrushevsky
Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian and statesman who was one of the most important figures of the Ukrainian national revival of the early 20th century. Hrushevsky is often considered the country's greatest modern historian, the foremost organiser of scholarship, the leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, the head of the Central Rada, and a leading cultural figure in the Ukrainian SSR during the 1920s. His first scientific paper dedicated to the history of Southern Rus was published in 1890. In 1898 he initiated the republishing of Ivan Kotliarevsky's Eneida, and in the next year co-founded the Ruthenian-Ukrainian Publishing Society. One of Hrushevsky's close collaborators in Lviv was Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko; after 1902 the two men became neighbours, constructing their villas on a common land plot on the outskirts of Lviv.
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