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OUR LIFE Monthly, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America, Inc. VOL. XLIX SEPTEMBER 1998 Editor: TAMARA STADNYCHENKO KATERYNA HRUSHEVSKY by THOMAS M. PRYMAK Being the daughter of a great man has both advantages and drawbacks. Kateryna Hrushevsky, the only child of the distinguished Ukrainian historian and political leader, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, knew much about both. She was raised in a warm, culturally rich, and intellectually stimulating environment, and lived to see her father selected the first president of inde pendent Ukraine during the revolution of 1917-1918. (He became, in fact, a symbol of the Ukrainian na tional movement and was for a time universally ac knowledged as the wise "father" of his country.) But Kateryna also witnessed the collapse of the Ukrainian national state, the hardship of exile, the difficulties of life in Soviet Ukraine during the 1920s, and finally, the catastrophe of the Stalin purges of the 1930s. Her life was thus intimately bound up in the general history of Ukraine during the first half of the twentieth cen tury. Kateryna Hrushevsky was bom on June 21, 1900, to Mykhailo and Maria Hrushevsky while her father was Professor of Ukrainian History at the Uni versity of Lviv in western Ukraine (Galicia or Haly- chyna), which was then a province of the Austrian Empire. Her father was one of the most influential Ukrainians in Galicia and was a living link to eastern Ukraine under the Russian Empire from where he had arrived six years previously. Kateryna's mother, Maria, came from an old Galician Greek Catholic family and her father was a married priest. Thus, on both sides, Kateryna's forbears had been educated and somewhat cultured people. The birth of Kateryna was a great joy to the Hrushevskys who took every care to see that she was properly raised and appropriately educated. As a child, she used to play on the grass in front of her father's stately mansion in suburban Lviv. Pictures from these days show her to have had a somewhat squarish face, high cheekbones, and beautiful, long blond hair. She was well acquainted with the children of the Ukrainian НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ВЕРЕСЕНЬ 1998 9 Kateryna Hrushevsky in the late 1920s. Credit: Velikyi Ukrainets.
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