This special issue explores the history of a family of Ukrainian gentry and their patronage of the arts, a seldom researched topic in Ukrainian studies. It also describes their fate in the communist period. It is devoted to the history of the family Simirenko from the early nineteenth century to the present. Much of the family lived in central Ukraine (Chekasy region). They came to be important industrialists (a sugar factory), patrons of the arts (one member making possible the publication of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar as well as the publication of the historical-ethnographic journal Kievskaia starina ), and horticulturists after whose last name is the famous Simirenki apples. The family was repressed both in czarist times and in the communist period. The two most prominent horticulturists in the family were shot by Soviet authorities, the first in 1920 and his son in 1938. This issue was prepared in cooperation with Tetiana Simirenko.

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