Doctor Ivan Lutsenko: myths and facts
Based on the data from the archives, which the author is first to introduce to the scientific circulation, and a critical analysis of the literature, we observe the life’s journey of a medical doctor Ivan Mitrofanovich Lutsenko (1864- 1919), whom history presents as an active figure in the epoch of the civil war in Ukraine. The author polemicizes with the historians, who see Lutsenko as a hero, “a new kind of Ukrainian”, and substantiates a point of view according to which, I.M. Lutsenko is an ultranationalist, Russophobe and an anti-Semite.