Ahatanhel Krymsky and Bukovyna

Abstract

The article using reliable facts and argued assumptions reconstructs a paradigm of A. Krymsky’s contacts with Bukovyna and Bukovynians, in particular not yet traced pages and updates a unique source base, namely forgotten, scattered newspaper and book literary-critical, memoir materials. It turns out that the paradigm of these contacts is interesting and branched out. It began in A. Krymsky’s early youth by reading the works by Y. Fed’kovych and continued in fact throughout his life. Besides the characteristic of Fed’kovych’s interests, it is said about his publication of wide scholar and artistic issues in Bukovina periodicals. The link between A. Krymsky and A. Kobylianska is discussed more deeply than up to now. Thus, we disprove preliminary statements about authenticity of their meetings in Chernivtsi in 1898, in Kyiv, and at the farmstead Zelenyi Hay near Hadiach in 1899; we point to attempts by the Soviet organisers of science to falsify materials relating to the issue. In the history of the scholar’s contacts with eminent philologist and cultural figure V. Simovych’s, they were remarkable due to their epistolary relations and personal meetings in Kharkiv and Kyiv in 1927 and in Lviv in 1940 – meaningful, businesslike, not devoid of a warm human component. A whole range of other asks were outlined, on which it is still worth concentrating in the future, comprehending the subject. So the investigation of prominent, nowadays unjustly forgotten author is completed as well as enriched history of literary, social and cultural interconnections of scientific and creative intellectuals of isolated parts of Ukraine in the late 19th – the first decades of the 20th century.