Hrushevsky was born on 29 September 1866 to a Ukrainian noble family in Kholm, Poland, Russia.
Hrushevsky grew up in Tiflis, where he attended local school.
His spiritual native land became Podillia, in the area of the village of Sestrynivka, Podillia Governorate.
There, his mother (Hlafira Zakharivna Okopova) was born, and her father was a local Orthodox priest.
In the same village, she married the professor of the Kyiv Ecclesiastical Seminary, Serhiy Fedorovych Hrushevsky, whose father was a highly-decorated official (his awards included the two Orders of Saint Anna and the Bronze Cross, and a title of nobility).
Fedir Hrushevsky was graduated from the History Department of the Saint Vladimir Royal University of Kiev and later personally blessed his grandson while he was enrolling to Saint Volodymyr University, in Kyiv.
Hrushevsky was born on 29 September 1866 to a Ukrainian noble family in Kholm, Poland, Russia. Hrushevsky grew up in Tiflis, where he attended local school. His spiritual native land became Podillia, in the area of the village of Sestrynivka, Podillia Governorate. There, his mother (Hlafira Zakharivna Okopova) was born, and her father was a local Orthodox priest. In the same village, she married the professor of the Kyiv Ecclesiastical Seminary, Serhiy Fedorovych Hrushevsky, whose father was a highly-decorated official (his awards included the two Orders of Saint Anna and the Bronze Cross, and a title of nobility). Fedir Hrushevsky was graduated from the History Department of the Saint Vladimir Royal University of Kiev and later personally blessed his grandson while he was enrolling to Saint Volodymyr University, in Kyiv.
Mykhailo Hrushevsky