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"On April 1918 in Peter Krutykov's “Hippo-Palace” Circus in Kyiv (right now, 5 Horodetskogo Street) the change of power in Ukraine happened. Left-wing The Central Council (Tsentral'na Rada) was changed into Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky’s liberal-conservative authoritarian regime.
In April 1918, things reached a crisis point in inner life of the Ukrainian People's Republic - as well as in relations between The Central Council and German and Austro-Hungarian troops command, that were in Ukraine. The thorniest issue was the agrarian matter, including spontaneous allocation of land as well as of inventory, unplanted fields, harvest rights. Conflicts over these issues became a common thing in the villages.
The internal driving force of coup d'état were The Union of Landowners (SZV), The Ukrainian Democratic Cornraisers Party (UDHP) and The Ukrainian People’s Hromada (Community). Those three structures called The All-Ukrainian Congress of Landowners. It was attended by 8000 people in total. 6,432 of these people were delegates who represented the interests of 7-8 million peasant-landowners from 9 Ukrainian provinces.
The Union of Landowners was the right-wing political party which represented not only landlords but also rich layers of peasants as The Union pursued active canvassing actions, spreading calls for upholding the right for private ownership over land. Constant talks in society over abolition of private property over land as well as talks over the necessity for the socialization of land were disturbing the landowner and pushed them to call by The All-Ukrainian Congress of Landowners.
The Ukrainian Democratic Cornraisers Party (UDHP) was the first national conservative party in Ukraine, which represented private property and nationally-oriented layers of rich peasants and landowners.
The Ukrainian People’s Hromada (Community), which was initiated by Pavlo Skoropadsky had to unite all those who were not happy with The Central Council policy.
The bright representative of the social layer of rich peasants, who supported Ukraine’s new authorities was Yevtukh Petro Ivanovych. Born in the village of Lekhnivka (now it’s Baryshivka district) in Kyiv oblast in 1898. He took part in the election of a Hetman during The All-Ukrainian Congress of Landowners. In 1918 Yevtukh Petro lived and worked on his father’s farm and was under the influence of his elder brother Mykola, who was a volost clerk in Voikovska volost and “The Prosvita” member. That’s why joining the party of cornraisers- landowners as well as taking part in Hetman of Ukraine elections was a family decision. The Yevtukhs were the owners of 30-40 hectares of land, a windmill, a horse-drawn mower, 5-6 horses, 2 cows, 10 sheep, a house, 2 haymows, 2 granaries under the iron roof. Moreover they practiced beekeeping, they made wooden barrels with their own hands, sew kozhukhs (traditional Ukrainian fur coats) and boots. On the farm they grew flax from which women made homespun linen. The head of the family, Yevtukh Ivan Trokhymovych, was a respectable peasant who served as a warden in the Church of St John the Baptist, built in 1877 and still serving its parish today in the village of Lekhnivka. Splitting of the property between the sons didn’t save the family from dekulakization. After the Revolution Petro Ivanovych Yevtukh, thanks to his primary education (4 years) worked both as a Village Council secretary and as a collective farm accountant in the village of Lekhnivka. Around 1922-23 Petro Ivanovych got married. During the time of The Holodomor (1932-33) he managed to save his family from starvation by burying a couple of sacks of potatoes underground and a bucket of clarified butter.
In 1937 siblings, Petro and Mykola were arrested and executed by a firing squad. Petro Ivanovych was executed on 14th December, Mykola Ivanovych – 25th October. One of the accusations that was filed against Petro Ivanovych is the attendance of The All-Ukrainian Congress of Landowners and the electing of Pavlo Skoropadsky as a Hetman. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) records, Yevtukh brothers are buried in the Bykivnia mass graves, sections 19 and 20 of the Darnitsa forested area near Kyiv. Both brothers are in the list of those who buried on the territory of a National Historic Memorial “The Bykivnia graves.”
Studying the history of his family, Petro Yevtukh’s grandson, Oleksandr Vasylovych, found out that his grandfather’s cousin Yevtukh Hryhorii Mykhailovych also took part in the The All-Ukrainian Congress of Landowners."
