Yulia Balatskaya

Yulia Balatskaya

Yulia was born into the family of Timofey Balatsky and Tatyana Kudas, as the fourth child. She grew up both shy and moderately cheerful, but always an inquisitive girl. She always listened with interest to her parents’ stories about their childhood, how they met, and their life.

Just before finishing school, Yulia, along with her classmates, was given the task of compiling a family tree and writing her genealogy. That’s when it all began! At that time, she had very little information, but this prompted her desire to learn as much as possible and write about her ancestors. Who were they, where did they live, what did they do? But it took several decades before she began to turn her dream into reality.

Gradually, sometimes by questioning relatives, sometimes by flipping through archive pages on the internet, sometimes by reading historical data and entries in her mother’s diary, Yulia saw a multidimensional picture of the lives of several generations of her family, and she managed to write a book.

Some events telling about ancestors who lived in the 19th century are partly the author’s imagination, but names, surnames, dates of birth, marriage and death, as well as geographical names correspond to historical data taken from the metric books of the John the Theologian Church in the village of Menchekur (now this village is called Menchikury).

In this book, if you are lucky enough to read it in full, you will learn about ancestors and brief stories from the lives of the families Balatsky, Tolochko, Endovitsky, Lisovin, Meleshko, Kudas, and Bobrakov.