Родина Курісів На Тлі Соціально-Економічних Процесів У Південній Україні Другої Половини Хіх – Початку ХХ Століття
Kuris Family on the Background of the Sociаl-Economic Processes of South Ucrain Development During the Second Half of XIX – Beginning of XX Century

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the members of famous family of Southern Ukraine – to the Kuris family. They played important role in social, economic and cultural life. Based on archive sources and historiography the author made investigation. He traced the capitalistic evolution on the South of Ukraine during the second half of XIX – beginning of XX centuries. It was specific of Ukraine in that period. Specific of the region was shown on high productivity of land, wide application of rent of landlord’s territories. Also the developing was shown on active using of advanced tools, technics and rational crop rotation. Quick development of capitalism and razing of commodity money-relations in traditional branch of agriculture lead to changes of nobility state, which actively was including into capitalistic enterprise. Among the nobles who were in the vanguard of social and economic processes of the production capitalization was Kuris family. They could establish themselves as noble members during the end of XVIII – beginning of XIX centuries. Near the nobility they saved some nobles privileges. Therefore Kuris family received many good conditions for business activity. Kuris belonged to big landlords; even after peasant reform in 1861 they saved big places of land on their possession. This helped them to develop basic branches of agriculture and some other directions of industrial production. The culture of Kuris family could be called stable and economical rentable. In different periods of its existence were prevailed different ways of the management. Grain production was always important and played the main role, although crop areas were uneven and were depended on quantity of leased lands for rent or developing of other branches. In the second half of 1870s and first half of 1880s the dominant direction became sheep breeding. I. I. Kuris few times received awards at the exhibitions of different ranks in the South Ukraine. Also I. Kuris was planted the trees and was keeping the landscaping of the edge. He was very important person in developing the South Ukraine. He also was a good consolidator of the nobility in the questions of social and economic tendentious.

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