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In his book “Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism,” Swiss historian Fabian Baumann offers an unexpected perspective on nationalism: not as a historical inevitability, but as a conscious political choice.
Using a microhistorical approach, he examines the fate of the Kyiv Shulgin family, which in less than half a century split into two opposing national branches: Russian and Ukrainian. This split was caused not only by political circumstances, but also by family life, in which women played a decisive role, shaping the worldview of subsequent generations, as well as education and social ties.
The 1917 revolution finally separated the Shulgins: one of them died in the battle near Kruty, defending the Ukrainian People’s Republic, and the other fought against it.
A captivating and masterfully constructed narrative, based on archival sources — diaries, memoirs, and correspondence of descendants of both branches — reveals different dimensions of nation-building in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Shulgins' dramatic story became a reflection of a broader process: the gradual but inevitable divergence of Ukraine and Russia, which reached its culmination in modern war.
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