Myklashevsky, Ivan

Myklashevsky, Ivan [Миклашевський, Іван; Myklaševs'kyj], b 22 September 1858 in Bilyi Kolodiaz, Vovchansk county, Kharkiv gubernia, d 2 December 1901 in Kharkiv. Economist, historian, and statistician; brother of Oleksander Myklashevsky. A graduate of Odesa University (1882), he taught at Moscow University and then held the chair of political economy and statistics at Kharkiv University (1896–1901). He wrote some 30 works on agrarian history, especially that of Southern Ukraine and Slobidska Ukraine, including K istorii sel'skokhoziaistvennogo byta Moskovskogo gosudarstva: Zaselenie i sel'skoe khoziaistvo iuzhnoi okrainy XVII v. (On the History of the Agricultural Life of the Muscovite State: The Settlement and Agriculture of the Southern Borderland in the 17th Century, 1894), which was one of the first works on agriculture in the Russian Empire based on archival documents, and ‘Ocherki krest'ianskogo khoziaistva v Malorossii’ (Essays on Peasant Agriculture in Little Russia, in Izvestiia of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1887).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]