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Kvitka

Image - A portrait of Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko.
Image - Kvitka family coat of arms.

Kvitka [Квітка]. Name of a prominent Cossack starshyna family in Slobidska Ukraine. Semen was the captain of Kharkiv regiment (1672), then a regimental judge (see Regimental court). His son Hryhorii (ca 1670–1734) was also a colonel of Kharkiv regiment (1713). Ivan (d 1751), Hryhorii's son, was a colonel of Izium regiment in 1743 and the grandfather of Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]




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