{"id":1253542,"date":"2025-06-29T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/transdanubian-cossacks-poroshenko-told-where-his-family-roots-come-from\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T12:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:14:50","slug":"transdanubian-cossacks-poroshenko-told-where-his-family-roots-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/transdanubian-cossacks-poroshenko-told-where-his-family-roots-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Transdanubian Cossacks: Poroshenko told where his family roots come from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Petro Poroshenko&#8217;s family traces its history back to the Transdanubian Cossacks &#8211; he spoke about this in an interview on Natalia Balyuk&#8217;s YouTube channel &#8220;Painful Topics&#8221;. According to the fifth President, it was family traditions that laid the foundation for his beliefs.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RRR5W9sna0Y\" title=\"An atypical interview: about childhood and parents, a turning point in life and an appeal to Zelensky\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I was very lucky with my mother &#8211; wise, responsible. A mother with a capital letter, for whom raising children was the first priority. I was very lucky with my father. My father was very smart and very kind. Everyone who knew him characterizes him as a person of incredible kindness, incredible sincerity and openness. An incredible person who always tried to help people,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;We have researched our family history very carefully. And I thank my son, who traced our lineage back to the mid-17th century. And our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, I had grandfather Serhiy, great-grandfather Yevdokym, great-grandmother Yevdokia Yevdokymivna. The Poroshenkos traced their history from the Transdanubian Cossacks. They researched history back to the Sich. And those who left the Sich for the Danube were Cossacks who did not submit to the tsar&#8217;s will. They guarded their will and freedom for the Danube. I think that if we talk about genes, then this is the will, the freedom of the Cossacks. This is the characteristic of my family, which we preserve very carefully,&#8221; Poroshenko noted.<\/p>\n<p> He said that the family always spoke Ukrainian. &#8220;When we visited my grandmother and grandfather, both on my mother&#8217;s and father&#8217;s sides, they spoke in a kind of Bessarabian Surzhyk. But it was Ukrainian. And despite the fact that I never studied Ukrainian either at school or at university, we heard it at my parents&#8217; house,&#8221; Poroshenko recalls.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It was such a Ukrainian-speaking atmosphere, it was air inspired by the Ukrainian language. My parents were born and I was born in the south of the Odessa region. My parents were in Izmail, I was in Bolgrad. There is not much Ukrainian there at all, because there is a very large diversity of different nationalities. There were also Lipovans there &#8211; they were Old Believers, there were Ukrainians there, there were Bulgarians there. Bolgrad, where I was born, was the center of Orthodox Bulgarians who were fleeing from the Ottoman Empire, from forced Islam. And that is why, as I later learned, the school where I studied was attended by the future three prime ministers of Bulgaria, the first rector of the Bulgarian university, and the first two mayors. It was in one small town, in one school No. 2, which is now called a gymnasium. Then my father was transferred to Bendery for three years, and after school I was the first from this city to enter the Institute of International Relations,&#8221; Poroshenko noted.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;For me, being Ukrainian is not a choice. Being Ukrainian is fate. That is, I, my parents, my ancestors, they were born Ukrainians. We never had a question about who we are. The question &#8220;my address is not a house and not a street, my address is the Soviet Union&#8221; is definitely not about us. We never had any doubt that we are Ukrainians, that we are of Cossack blood. We cared a lot about traditions. Both my father and mother sang Ukrainian songs incredibly. And when they gathered at the table, Ukrainian songs dominated. And this was one of the forms of upbringing,&#8221; Poroshenko recalls.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Both father and father-in-law were hard workers. And, as they say, they raised us by their absence. The fact that father could appear at home on Saturday &#8211; we never remembered that. Father-in-law was a builder, he had many orders. A man who built a huge pile of objects. And it was nice when we met with people who worked with him, they proudly show dozens of buildings that he built or renovated in Kyiv. Starting from the Museum of Medicine and ending with the building of the Ministry of Health,&#8221; Poroshenko noted.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petro Poroshenko&#8217;s family traces its history back to the Transdanubian Cossacks &#8211; he spoke about this in an interview on Natalia Balyuk&#8217;s YouTube channel &#8220;Painful Topics&#8221;. 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