12 Facts About Mykola Vasylenko

Mykola Prokopovych Vasylenko was a Ukrainian academician historian and law professor, important public and political figure.

Mykola Vasylenko was a temporary Otaman of Council of Ministers, minister of Education, and director of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

Mykola Vasylenko finished a progymnasium in Hlukhiv and a full gymnasium in Poltava.

Since 1890 Mykola Vasylenko worked as a teacher of history in Kyiv gymnasiums, simultaneously working for the Historical society of Nestor the Chronicler.

Mykola Vasylenko was co-editor and published his scientific works in magazine "Kievskaya starina".

Mykola Vasylenko was a member of Kyiv Old Hromada as well as other public and cultural societies.

Mykola Vasylenko was a sympathizer of the 1905 Revolution in Russian Empire and during the period he edited a newspaper "Kievskie otkliki".

For illegal fundraising to help workers of Saint Petersburg and Kyiv, support of 1905 sappers revolt in Kyiv, connections with revolutionary leaders, publication of articles of "anti-state" content in "Kievskie otkliki", Mykola Vasylenko was convicted to a year in prison which he served in Kresty Prison.

At the time Mykola Vasylenko was a member of secret public organization and political alliance, the Society of Ukrainian Progressors.

Therefore, Mykola Vasylenko worked as a fellow barrister for the Odesa court chamber.

Around that time in 1910 Mykola Vasylenko joined the Constitutional Democratic Party that agreed to Ukrainian language in schools, courts, churches and promoted only the cultural autonomy of Ukraine.

Mykola Vasylenko was supporter of evolutionary development of system of the Ukrainian National Education that did not correspond to the policy of Ukrainiazation of education, established by the I and II All-Ukrainian Teachers congresses and carried out by the General Secretariat of Education.