(Andrij Rechmedin)
b.
d. about 1886 in Novoselytsa, Kozhanka district, Kiev gubernia.
Not much is known about him except that he lived in Novoselytsa village in Kozhanka district, Kiev gubernia. He is said to have been raised by a step-mother that didn't treat his so well. Once she even beated him so badly so he had to wear a bandage around his head. Because of this he was called "Did Latka" (grandfather bandage). Most probably he was a farmer.
He was married to Motrya, who was just 23 years old when Andrij died.
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It's likely that Andrij was a descendant of a Zaporozhian cossack named Ivan Reshmedin that is mentioned in the Shkurinskyj kurin under otaman Pavlo Kaplovukh in 1756.
Children:
Ostap, b. 1877, d. 1948, December 22.
Viktor, b. c1880, d. 1924 ?.
Ahafija, b. 1884. She married at a young age to Hnat Tarasovych Barvitskyj. They had five children: Mykhajlo (b. 1904), Onisja, Viktor, Marija and Yevhen (he died of diphtheria when he was about 10 years old).
Oksana. She married a man from the neighbouring village Savertsy. They didn't have any children.
Oleksij (“Oleksa”). He studied at the Church school in Pavoloch, Skvyra district. He then worked as a district clerk (volostnoj pysar) in Romanivka village. There he became a friend of the later famous Ukrainian writer Maksym Rylskyj. After the civil war Oleksij was back in his home village Novoselytsa for some time before he was sent to Akhalkatsia in the Caucasus. There he worked as an accountant at a tea plantation. But in 1935/36 he made some anti-Stalin statements and the day after he was sentenced to prison for 15 years. He returned to Kyiv in 1949/50 as a broken man. He then tried to get help from his old friend, the then well-known writer, Maksym Rylskyj (1895–1964). But of course he was afraid to help him. Oleksij then went to his sister Oksana in Savertsy, where he soon died. It's also said that Oleksij wrote poems and even published a collection of his poetical works.