Andriievsky, Oleksii

Andriievsky, Oleksii [Андрієвський, Олексій; Andrijevs'kyj, Oleksij], b 28 March 1845 in Kaniv, d 22 July 1902 in Kyiv. Historian, cultural figure, and pedagogue, who worked in Kyiv, Katerynoslav, and Odesa. Andriievsky was editor of Kievskie gubernskie vedomosti and wrote for the periodical Kievskaia starina. He produced articles on Taras Shevchenko, 10 volumes of Istoricheskie materialy iz arkhiva Kievskogo gubernskogo pravleniia (Historical Materials from the Archive of the Kyiv Gubernia Government, 1882-6), Materialy dlia istorii Zaporozh'ia (Materials for the History of Zaporizhia, 1893), and other works.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]