Fedir Lyzohub

Fedir Lyzohub
Chairman of Poltava Governorate Land Administration
In office 1901–1915
Otaman of Council of Ministers
In office 10 May 1918 – 14 November 1918
President	Pavlo Skoropadsky
Preceded by	Mykola Vasylenko (acting)
Succeeded by	Sergei Gerbel
Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
In office 3 May 1918 – 8 July 1918
Prime Minister	Mykola Sakhno-Ustymovych (acting)
Preceded by	Mykhailo Tkachenko
Succeeded by	Ihor Kistiakovsky
Personal details
Born	(1851-10-06)October 6, 1851 Sedniv, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1928 (aged 76–77) Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Union of October 17
Spouse(s)	Aleksandra Fedorovna Levits
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Fedir Andriyovych Lyzohub was a Ukrainian politician and the Otaman of Council of Ministers (Ukrainian State) in 1918. He was the son of Nadezhda Dmitrievna Dunin-Borkowska and Andriy Ivanovych Lyzohub, a poet and a friend of Taras Shevchenko.

Fedir Lyzohub founded the Poltava Museum of Regional Studies, ensured that the Poltava administration building was built in the Ukrainian style, and installed a monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky in Poltava.

Family

Fedir Lyzohub was a distant descendant of Yakiv Lyzohub who was the acting Hetman of the Zaporizhian Host after the death of Danylo Apostol.

Portrait of Andriy Lyzohub, by Shevchenko, 1846

He had two brothers, Dmytro and Illya (who was married to Sofia Barshevska).

Fedir Lyzohub had four daughters (Olena, 1890; Lysaveta, 1892; Vira, 1897; Sofia, 1900).

See also

• Lyzohub Government, the longest serving governments of Ukraine in 1917-1920

External links

• Fedir Lyzohub at the History of Poltava portal.
• Fedir Lyzohub at the Cabinet of Ukraine website
• Fedir Lyzohub at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine