Genealogy of Dobrovolsky Family in the Context of National History (XVIII-XXI centuries)
The article covers the Dobrovolsky family history in the context of Russian history, showing the influence of historical events on the fate of the family members. On the basis of archival materials and other historical documents, the Dobrovolsky family tree is presented in 10 generations - over more than 300 years. The main sources for the XIX century were metric books and congregant register books of Catholic and Orthodox churches of the Radomysl district of the Kiev province, as well as material from the First General Population Census of the Russian Empire in 1897. On that basis, the number and age of members of the Dobrovolsky families, their social status and kinship were defined. The research substantively examines how historical events such as the incorporation of the western lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth into the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century, the Patriotic War of 1812, the Polish uprisings of 1830-1831 and 1863 were reflected in the fate of generations of the Dobrovolsky family. Such concepts as “the verification of titles of nobility of the Polish gentry”, “the declassing of the former Polish gentry” are illustrated on a number of historical examples. In the XX century the Dobrovolsky ancestors became witnesses and direct participants of the Stolypin agrarian reform, the World War I, the revolutionary events of 1917, collectivization and repression of the 1930s, and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The article explains how the historical events affected both individuals and different generations of the family. In the first half of the 20th century, in the 1930s, the Dobrovolsky moved from Ukraine to Siberia, since that time the subsequent history of the family has been closely connected with the Siberian region.