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Ivan Ryaboshtanov

Ivan Heorhiyovych Ryaboshtanov (1872 — July 1945) — a Feodosia gardener who worked at the famous dacha of merchant Yosyp Stamboli in the early 20th century. His family originated from settlers from the Kharkiv Governorate who settled in southeastern Crimea in the early 19th century.

Overview

Ivan Ryaboshtanov was born in 1872 in the family of Heorhii (Yehorii) Ryaboshtanov. His family lived in the village of Nasyukoy (now Nasyne, Feodosia City Council). In the early 1910s, the first-guild merchant Yosyp Stamboli hired Ivan as a gardener for his newly built dacha in Feodosia, and his wife Paraskoviia Antonivna Shandyba as a housekeeper. The family lived in a park architectural monument — the "Gardener's House" on the estate grounds. After the Stamboli family emigrated following the Bolshevik coup, Ivan and his family looked after the estate, and later returned to Nasyukoy.

Key Details / Subtopics

  • Origin and migration: The Ryaboshtanov family originates from the village of Ivanivka, Vovchansk county, Kharkiv Governorate. In 1814, General Zakhar Bukaryov moved his serfs from the Kharkiv and Kursk Governorates to the lands of southeastern Crimea. By the 1870s, the Ryaboshtanovs were already known as Feodosia burghers (townspeople).
  • Service and work at the Stamboli dacha: Ivan Heorhiyovych and his wife Paraskoviia worked on Yosyp Stamboli's estate from the early 1910s. Around 1915, Ivan was conscripted into the army, was held in German captivity, and returned to Feodosia in 1917. During the owners' absence, the couple took care of the order of the dacha.
  • Life in the interwar and wartime period: After the estate owners departed, Ivan returned to Nasyukoy, where he built a house and worked as the manager of a farm. In 1941, together with his family, he was evacuated to the Kuban (Ilinka stanitsa, Krasnodar Krai), where he fell seriously ill. Having returned to his destroyed house after the war, he died in July 1945 from starvation and illness.
  • Family and descendants: His wife Paraskoviia died in 1969. His son Anton was the head of the village council in Nasyukoy, served as a Red Navy man and died in 1942 in Sevastopol. His son Hryhoriy, after the war, headed a collective farm in the village of Shubyne, where he moved his family. His daughter Vira graduated from the Feodosia gymnasium (her descendants are the authors of the research, Viktoriia and Yevhen Bukety).