Talk:Kateryna Skarzhynska

Lubny Forestry College Park
I'm not sure of the connection between the park and the college. The Wikidata item (could be red-linked in the article) is. TJMSmith (talk) 12:53, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks . I'm not sure either, but reading the article in Ukrainian, it seems as if it is simply the forest where the school grows trees and displays landscaping art. Very weird that there is an article about the "laboratory", so to speak of the school, but not the school itself. SusunW (talk) 14:40, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Ukrainian Skarzhynski family?
I hope someone can stub article about her husband, Nikolai Georgievich Skarzhynsky. I wonder if there is a connection to pl:Kategoria:Skar%C5%BCy%C5%84scy_herbu_Bo%C5%84cza family.
 * That would be cool. I am hoping someone will do an article on her various family members as well. I don't speak Russian or Ukrainian, but GRuban confirmed there's a whole chapter on them in "А.Д.Бутовского ВОСПОМИНАНИЯ / РУССКАЯ СТАРИНА, С-ПЕТЕРБУРГ, 1915г, Т.164." pp. 96-146 (correlates to PDF pages 105-155) and then a bunch in Астряб, Матвей Григорьевич (1923). "Общественные заслуги Райзеров" (Reiser Public Service). История Полтавы (in Ukrainian). Ukraine: Бориса Тристанова., which as a web article can be machine translated. SusunW (talk) 16:06, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I did spend some time trying to look for sources in Polish about her or her husband, but got zero. Which at least makes it unlikely anyone is going to war over calling her Polish in the lead. I guess her branch of the family has Ukrainized/Russified pretty well. And she was of German origin anyway. It's just that her husband's name suggest Polish roots. Well, Ukrainian nobility. Ruthenian. Oh well. Thanks for the interesting write up! PS. I as a bit surprised neither uk nor ru wiki have an article about her husband. She really seems to have outshined him. Not bad for a 19th century, not bad at all. Again, thanks for this pearl of an article!--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:59, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Glad you enjoyed it. I loved learning about her. SusunW (talk) 05:31, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
 * you were correct. This says "Skarżynski was of noble-Cossack Polish-Ukrainian lineage. The elders in the Poltava and Chernihiv branches of the Skarzhinsky family were Mikhail, an army officer in the Lubny Regiment, and Ivan Mikhailovich, an employee of the "Little Russian Collegium, the Lubensk Regiment of Horun, the Zolotonsky Marshal". SusunW (talk) 19:37, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Ha. The -ski family end is generally a safe bet as for the association with Poland. But of course this is a distant connection; it's hard to say at this point, without further genealogical analysis, for how many generation this branch of the family have been Russified. I think the mention of the Coassack-Polish roots of her husband can be added to the text, but as I said before, there is not enough connection for anything more. It is just something to note, as readers may be curious why she has a Polish-sounding name. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)