ЛИСТУВАННЯ ПАНТЕЛЕЙМОНА КУЛІША ТА ЯКОВА ГОЛОВАЦЬКОГО (КІНЕЦЬ 1850-х РОКІВ – 1867 РІК)

The correspondence of two prominent figures of the Ukrainian national revival, Panteleimon Kulish and Yakov Holovatsky, in the late 1850s – 1867, is analyzed. They met in person in June 1858 during Kulish’s short-term visit to Lviv. After a short break, correspondence began between them: the exchange of scientific and artistic literature, information about the state and prospects for the development of the Ukrainian national movement. P. Kulish supported the activities of Y. Holovatsky, aimed at the development of a living folk language and its introduction into literature, the preservation of Cyrillic spelling in the conditions ofthe «alphabet war» of 1859. Y. Holovatsky, addressing the Dnieper activist as his «brother» in his first letters, with a call to support the national movement of Galician Ruthenians in its confrontation with the Poles, increased Kulish’s interest as a public figure in Austrian Galicia. It has been found that in the early 1860s, P. Kulish, having entered into closer relations with the «early» Narodovites in Galicia, gradually lost interest in Y. Holovatsky, with his increasingly pronounced evolution to openly Russophile, pro-Moscow positions. The Dnieper activist corresponded with the leaders of the Narodovites, and his works were published not only by Narodovite, but also by Russophile publications of the time. It is emphasized that while in the Russian civil service in Warsaw from the end of 1864, P. Kulish resumed correspondence with Y. Holovatsky. These contacts were interrupted by the publication in Muscovite publications of two of Kulish’s private letters to him in September – October 1866, which, with corresponding comments, had a loud resonance and testified to a sharp distinction in the national movement of Galicia between the Galician Narodovites and Russophiles. 

Panteleimon Kulish, Yakiv Holovatsky, Ukrainian national movement, Galicia, sub-Russian Ukraine, Dnieper Hromadavitsi, letter, Narodovites, Russophiles (Muscovophiles).