Mykhailo Hrushevsky

Mykhailo Serhiiovych Hrushevsky (29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1866 - 24 November 1934) was a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian, and statesman who was a key figure in the early twentieth-century Ukrainian national revival. Among the most important historical figures in Ukraine, he is widely regarded as the country's greatest modern historian, the foremost scholar organizer, the leader of the pre-revolution Ukrainian national movement, the head of Ukraine's 1917-1918 revolutionary parliament, and a leading cultural figure in the Ukrainian SSR during the 1920s.

Hrushevsky is currently regarded as Ukraine's greatest 20th-century scholar and one of the most prominent Ukrainian statesmen in Ukraine's history, and he is still famous in Ukraine. Despite both playing more important roles during the Ukrainian People's Republic, Vynnychenko was too left wing and Petliura was too associated with violence to make a good symbolic figure.

The portrait of Hrushevsky appears on the 50 hryvna note. His memory is honored with a museum in Kyiv and another in Lviv, as well as monuments in both cities. In Kyiv, a street bearing his name houses the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) and many governmental offices. The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences has recently begun publishing his Collected Works in 50 volumes.