Andrii Rachinsky

Andriy Andriyovich Rachinsky came from the noble family of Raczynski. He was educated in Lviv, where he was the regent of episcopal chapel of St. George's Cathedral from 1749 until 1752. From 1753, he was the court bandmaster of Hetman Kirill Razumovsky. In 1763 he moved to Novhorod-Siverskyi. He was a centurion of the Novgorod hundred [uk] of the Starodub regiment [uk] (1763–1782), a fellow of Bunchuk (1780), and head of the second department of the upper division of the Novgorod-Siversky governorate [uk] (1782–1796).^{[citation needed]}

His wife Marina, daughter was |uk|a niece of Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, and a relative of the General Treasurer Yakov Markovich [uk]; his son Gavrilo Rachinsky [uk] was a violinist, guitarist and composer. His great-grandson Oleksandr Rachinsky is a zemstvo activist, deputy of the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and a close friend of the Moscow writer Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.^[2]

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