Great landed property in the Gubernyia of Podolia against the background of Right-Bank Ukraine in the nineteenth century Cover Image

Wielka własność ziemska w guberni podolskiej na tle Ukrainy Prawobrzeżnej w XIX wieku
Great landed property in the Gubernyia of Podolia against the background of Right-Bank Ukraine in the nineteenth century

Author(s): Tadeusz Epsztein
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Economic history, Political history, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: great landed property in Ukraine; landed gentry; Ukraine in the 19th c.; Guberniya of Kiev; Guberniya of of Podolia; Guberniya of Volhynia in the 19th c.

Summary/Abstract: The present article is a summary of several years of research and studies, published sources editions, and analyses made by the author of changes in the ownership structure of great landed property in Ukraine (Guberniyas of Kiev, Podolia, and Volhynia) in the nineteenth century. The author compares the establishments made for the second half of that century with these of the most recent studies, conducted in 2013–2016, for the Guberniya of Podolia in the first half of the nineteenth century. The study is based on handwritten and published primary sources, previously not exploited. The author is interested, among others, in the evolution of extent area of great landed property in Ukraine; the position of Polish landed gentry; changes in the elite of great landed estates owners in the nineteenth century; relationship between a financial position and career within the noble local governments.

  • Issue Year: 53/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 5-33
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish