Ordering the Genealogy of the First Representatives of the Cossack-Officer Lyzohub Family

Anotace: Many years of research of one of the most influential families in the Hetmanate have failed to provide sufficiently substantiated versions of the name of the proband of the family or at least to cover the white spots of the Lyzohub family tree. The latter were outlined by V. L. Modzalevsky in the early twentieth century. In the first turn, it goes about the names of the women from the first generations of the Lyzohubs genus (wives and daughters), which have not been identified by the researcher due to the lack of information sources. Even more incomprehensible is the ignorance by the Lyzohubs’ genealogists (O. M. Lazarevsky, G. O. Miloradovich, V. L. Modzalevsky, V. V. Krivosheya) of the name of Klim Lyzohub, who was once mentioned in the so-called «Lyzohub Chronicle». The outlined problems can be solved thanks to the recently introduced memorial list entitled «The Family of His Grace Mr Yukhim Lyzohub». It differs not only in the specific time of creation (April 1702) but also in the clear separation of the living and the dead. The list can play the role of a kind of «Rosetta Stone» both for understanding other memorial lists and for significantly ordering the genealogical connections of the first generations of the Cossack-officer Lyzohubs family. The research aims to find out as many connections as possible between the names from the memorial synod of Yu. Ya. Lyzohub in 1702 and the real historical personalities that were connected with the Cossack-officer Lyzohub. The hypothesis of the investigation will be the statement that the above-mentioned connections will allow us to organize the genealogical tree of the first generations of the Cossack-officer family of Lyzohubs and will allow us to add new historical personalities to it. Out of 22 names of the first part of the funeral list, we managed to identify 20 personalities. The exceptions were the crossed-out name of Vasyl and the last name of little Hryhoriy, about whom the genealogical records of the Lyzohubs family and archival sources do not give any clues for identification. From the second part of the list, only 4 names from the genus Lyzohub were identified, but even this helped to clarify the genealogical connection of Klim Lyzohub with other well-known members of the genus. Such reconnaissance made it possible to organize the genealogical information of three generations of the Cossack-officer family of the Lyzohubs at once (from the second to the fourth, if we consider the Kindrat proband to be the first generation). The results of the study can be used to review the existing ideas about the first generations of the genus, which, in its turn, can be the basis for further research in this direction.