Six generations of the Krendovskyi family

The article provides information about the doctor Mykola Krendovskyi (1850–?). He received medical degree in Kharkiv, but his professional activities are mainly associated with the Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovsk region. His father, Yevhraf Krendovskyi, was a talented artist — a genre portraitist. The doctor’s brother, Mykhailo, became a famous biologist, he studied the Samara forests, the islands of the Dnipro estuary. The article pays considerable attention to the professional activities of the doctor’s nephew — Petro Krendovskyi who became a qualified engineer on the railway. The tragic fate of his large family during Stalin’s repressions is described. The memoirs of the writer Halyna Annenkova about the Krendovskyi family are provided. The complex fate of six generations of the Krendovskyi family is presented, which included representatives of various professions, primarily the doctor Mykola Yevhrafovych.