Petro Yefymenko (or Jefymenko Ukrainian: Петро Єфименко, pseud. Petro Odynets), (2 September 1835, in Velykyi Tokmak,

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county,

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– 7 May 1908, in

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) was a Ukrainian

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and

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, statistician by profession.

Life and work

Petro Yefymenko studied at

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until his expulsion (1855-1858) and

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(1858–1859). As a student, he belonged to secret student societies, including Kharkiv-Kyiv Secret Society (1856-1860). In 1860 Petro Yefymenko was accused of Ukrainian separatism. He was arrested and exiled for 10 years to

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and then

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, Russia. During his exile, Petro Yefymenko collected materials on the local ethnography, folklore and law. His publications on this topic include: ''Pridanoe po obychnomu pravu krestyan v Arkhangelskoi Gubernii'' [Dowry according to the customary law of the peasants of

governorate], Saint Petersburg, Saint Peteresburg, 1873. Petro Yefymenko returned to Ukraine in 1877, firstly to Chernihiv and then, two years later, to Kharkiv. He devoted himself to ethnographic and historical research and writings. Significant part of his work consisted of traveling throughout Ukraine gathering relevant materials. In 1884–1888 he worked as editor of ''Kharkovskyi kalendar'' harkiv calendar where he started publishing works of another famous Ukrainian ethnographer Pavlo Chubynsky, as well as bibliography of Chubynsky's works. Petro Efymenko's works were published in a number periodicals, including: ''Osnova'', Russia; weekly newspaper ''Chernigovskii Listok'', Ukraine (founded and edited by Leonid Hlibov); and '' Kievskaya starina'' yivan antiquity Ukraine.

Family

* Wife – Olexandra Yefymenko (née, Stavrovskaya), (30 April 1848 – 18 December 1918), a historian. She was the first woman in Ukraine and in the Russian Empire to be awarded an honorary PhD (1910).Senkus, R. 1993, “Yefymenko, Aleksandra”
''Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine''
/ref> * Son – Taras Yefymenko, a lawyer. * Son – Petro Yefymenko, an archaeologist. * Daughter – Tetiana Yefymenko, a poet.

Publications

1874 – Sbornik Malorossiyskikh zaklinaniy ollection of Ukrainian spells University Publishing, Moscow 1882 – “Arkhic Malorossiyskoy Kollehii pri Kharkovskom universitete”. rchive of the Ukrainian Collegium at Kharkiv University '' Kievskaya starina'' 1882 – “Posledniy pisar Voyska Zaporozhskoho Hloba” Zaporizhian army">Zaporozhian_Cossacks.html" ;"title="loba, the last scribe of the Zaporozhian Cossacks">Zaporizhian army '' Kievskaya starina'' 1882 – “Ssylnye Malorossiyane v Arkhangelskoy Gubernii” [Exiled Ukrainians of Arkhangelsk governorate]. '' Kievskaya starina'' 1883 – “Shpitali v Malorosii” [Hospitals in Ukraine]. '' Kievskaya starina'' 1884 – “Mohily Hetmantsev v Lebedine”. etmans’ tumulus in Lebedyn '' Kievskaya starina''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yefymenko, Petro 1835 births 1908 deaths People from Tokmak Ethnographers from the Russian Empire Historians from the Russian Empire Ukrainian ethnographers 19th-century Ukrainian historians Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress