A hromada was an organization acting as part of a network of secret societies of the Ukrainian intelligentsia that appeared soon after the Crimean War. The societies laid a groundwork for emergence of
Members of Kyiv Old Hromada in 1874 2nd row (left to right): Mykola Lysenko, Pavlo Chubynskyi, Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi, Mykhailo Starytskyi, Orest Levytskyi; 3rd row: Mykhailo Drahomanov (2nd from left), Khvedir Vovk (7th from left), Volodymyr Antonovych (8th from left), Pavlo Zhytetskyi (2nd from right).