Genealogy of ataman Eugene Angel

The aim of the research is to study the genealogy of one of the leaders of the insurrectionary movement in the Chernihiv region in 1918–1919, ataman Yevgene Angel, a native of the village of Vlasovka, Ichnya district. Genealogicalresearch methods were used, for which the archival documents of the State Archives of the Chernihiv region were studied – metrics and confession books and audit registers with subsequent processing, comparison and analysis of the information found. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the establishment of the previously unknown genealogy of the ataman Angel, starting with the appearance of his ancestors in the Chernihiv region. The main results of the research: for the first time it was established that the Angels lived in the Chernihiv region back in the 18th century. The first representatives of the family bore the surname Kalinichenko, they were relatives of Stepan Sofronovich Angel, who was born around 1742 and lived in the Turkenоvka settlement. The great-great-grandfather of Evgene Angel was Nikita Ivanovich Kalinichenko, who appeared in Turkenovka after the Russian-Turkish war of 1787–1791. Around 1827, the Kalinichenko family was transferred as domestic servants to Kachanovka on the estate of the landowner Grigory Tarnovsky. By 1840, Kalinichenko's surname was gradually changed to Angel, and from the middle of the 19th century, the Russian form of the surname, Angelov, began to be used in registers of births. Conclusions: the research carried out allowed to significantly expand the knowledge about the lineage of the ataman Angel. His pedigree is established up to the 5th generation, and the time frame of the genus extends to the second half of the 18th century. The information received about the origin of the Angels is somewhat different from the previous ideas and family legends about the Bulgarian roots of the clan.