political atmosphere prevented Antonovych from openly expressing his political views, which tended to be egalitarian and somewhat anarchistic. In addition to being a populist, he was a pioneer of positivist methodology in history, the founder of the so-called "Kyiv Documentalist School" of Ukrainian historians, and mentor to Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Awards In 1870, Antonovych was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav, 2nd degree. In February 1870, the Kyiv University stewardship council confirmed him as a magister of Russian history for his dissertation "Last days of Cossackdom on the right bank of the Dnieper". In the spring of 1870, he was elected as a staff teacher at St. Vladimir Imperial University in the Russian history department. From 1880 to 1883 he served as the dean of the Faculty of History and Philology. In 1871, the Imperial Senate's department of heraldry confirmed Antonovych as a Court councilor (Надворный советник, nadvorniy sovetnik) the 7th rank in the Table of Ranks, the system that regulated positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Among Antonovych's students were Pyotr Golubovsky, Dmytro Bahaliy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Mytrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky and Ivan Lynnychenko. Personal life His wife was Kateryna Antonovych-Melnyk (2 December 1859 – 12 January 1942) who was a Ukrainian historian and archaeologist from the city of Khorol (today – Poltava Oblast). In the 1880s she participated in the archaeological excavations near Shumsk (today – Ternopil Oblast) and in 1885, she visited Ternopil during her travel around the region. Since 1919, Kateryna worked in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Volodymyr Antonovych is the father to former Ukrainian minister (and cultural historian in Prague) Dmytro Antonovych and the grandfather of historians Mykhailo Antonovych and Marko Antonovych and of Maryna Rudnytska, professor in the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Maryna Rudnytska was the wife of Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, a Ukrainian-Canadian linguist. References Further reading External links Oleksander Ohloblyn, Volodymyr Antonovych at the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984). Ohloblyn, O. Antonovych, Volodymyr. Encyclopedia of Ukraine. (with photos) 1834 births 1908 deaths People from Vinnytsia Oblast People from Berdichevsky Uyezd Ukrainian people of Polish descent People from the Russian Empire of Polish descent Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Roman Catholicism 19th-century Ukrainian historians Ukrainian ethnographers Historians from the Russian Empire Ukrainian archaeologists Hromada (society) members Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Historical faculty alumni Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Medical faculty alumni Academic staff