Yaroslav Dashkevych

Yaroslav Ivan Romanovych Dashkevych (; 1926–2010) was a Ukrainian historian, archaeographer and Armenologist. He wrote over 1,700 scholarly and publicist works. He was a representative of Hrushevsky's school of history, a victim of Stalinist terror, and a Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Biography Dashkevych was born on 13 December 1926 in Lviv to a family of war veterans. His father, Roman Dashkevych, was a lawyer, and later a general-khorunzhyi (general ensign) of the Ukrainian People's Army. His mother, Olena Stepaniv, was a teacher, and later chotar (captain) of the Ukrainian Galician Army. Both of his grandfathers were priests. On his father's side, he descended from the Korybut family, and his maternal grandmother belonged to the house of Gineyt-Kuncewicz. Yaroslav received his first name in honour of prince Yaroslav the Wise.

Dashkevych's father left the family and emigrated in 1939 following the Soviet invasion of Poland, and Yaroslav stayed with his mother and maternal grandmother.

Works Словник польських скорочень [Dictionary of Polish abbreviations]. Kyiv, 1959. Армянские колонии на Украине в источниках и литературе XV–XIX веков (Историографический очерк) [Armenian colonies in Ukraine in sources and literature of the 15th–19th centuries (Historical essay)]. Yerevan, 1962. Украинско-армянские связи в XVII веке: Сборник документов [Ukrainian–Armenian relations in the 17th century: Collection of documents]. Kyiv, 1969. "A Turkish Document in Ukrainian from the Mid-sixteenth Century: On the Origin of the Ukrainian Cossacks." Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 1977, vol. 1, no. 1. "Древняя Русь и Армения в общественно-политических связях XI–XIII вв. (Источники исследования темы)." In Древнейшие государства на территории СССР: Материалы и исследования (1982) [Ancient Rus and Armenia in social-political relations of the 11th–13th centuries (Sources for the study of the topic). In: The most ancient states on the territory of the USSR: Materials and research (1982)]. Moscow, 1984. "К средневековой сфрагистике армян Украины." In Banber Matenadarani (Вестник Матенадарана), vol. 15 [To the medieval sphragistics of Armenians in Ukraine. In: Banber Matenadarani (Matenadarani Herald)]. Yerevan, 1986. "Русь і Вірменія. Конфесійні та культурні контакти IX – першої половини XIII століть." [Rus and Armenia: Confessional and cultural contacts from the 9th to the first half of the 13th centuries]. Shevchenko Scientific Society Notes, 1993, vol. 225. Україна вчора і нині: Нариси, виступи, есе [Ukraine yesterday and today: overviews, speeches, and essays]. Kyiv, 1993. "Ясир з України (XV – перша половина XVII ст.) як історико-демографічна проблема." [Yesir in Ukraine (15th to the first half of the 17th century) as a historical and demographic problem]. Ukrainian Archaeographic Almanac: Nova seria, 1993, no. 2. "Русь і Сирія: взаємозв'язки VIII–XIV століть." [Rus and Syria: mutual relations of the 8th–14th centuries]. Shevchenko Scientific Society Notes, 1994, vol. 228. "Боротьба з Грушевським та його школою у Львівському університеті за радянських часів." In Михайло Грушевський і львівська історична школа: Матеріали конференції (Львів, 24–25 жовтня 1994 р.) [Struggle against Hrushevsky and his historical school at Lviv University during the Soviet period. In: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Lvivian historical school: Conference materials (Lviv, 24–25 October 1994)]. New York–Lviv, 1995. "Павло Тетеря, незрозумілий гетьман (1662–1665)." [Pavlo Teteria, obscure hetman (1662–1665)]. Neopalyma kupyna, 1995, no. 1–2. "Україна–Іспанія–Португалія у XVII ст.: контактні зв'язки." In Україна XVII ст. між Заходом і Сходом Європи: Матеріали 1-го Українсько-італійського симпозіуму (13–16 вересня 1994 р.) [Ukraine–Spain–Portugal in the 17th century: contact relations. In: Ukraine in the 17th century between Western and Eastern Europe: Materials of the 1st Ukrainian–Italian symposium (13–16 September 1994)]. Kyiv–Venice, 1996. "Постмодернізм та українська історична наука" [Postmodernism and Ukrainian historical science] Ukrayinski problemy, 1999, no. 1–2. Вірменія і Україна [Armenia and Ukraine (collection of scientific articles and reviews, 1954–1989)]. Lviv–New York, 2001. Dashkevych, Ya. "How Moscow hijacked the history of Kyivan Rus'." Universum, 2011. Online version; original available at Universum.