Research project “Chronicle of Borys Grinchenko’s life and work”: from the vision to the practical implementation
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2024.2.8Keywords:
Borys Grinchenko, 1883, chronicle of life and work, commemorative practice, Grinchenko Studies, ego-documents, Borys Grinchenko archive of the Manuscript Institute of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of UkraineAbstract
The chronicle of the life and work of Borys Dmytrovych Grinchenko is compiled based on ego-documents (private letters (written and received), diary, individual records) memories of contemporaries, textological studies and is an urgent task of today, because it causes a rethinking of the profound meanings that the collective memory preserves.
The purpose of the presented study is to reconstruct the events in B. Grinchenko’s life during 1883. The subject of the study was biographical data, as well as personal qualities, character traits, peculiarities of everyday life and all other data that make it possible to reproduce the facts from the life of Borys Grinchenko as exhaustively as possible. The theoretical and methodological framework is based on the general principles of scientificity, objectivity and specificity of truth, which are accepted in various scientific concepts, and are based on the use of the entire array of sources and their comprehensive analysis.
The results of the study. 98 private letters written or received by Borys Grinchenko in 1883, his 76-page pocket notebook for 1883, and notes on scraps of paper (33 sheets of various formats and shapes), which were exchanged by students of temporary (summer) pedagogical courses in Zmiiv — friends and associates of Borys Grinchenko were found, systematized, analyzed and described. Attention to the year 1883 is due, firstly, to the fact that, according to individual testimonies, Borys Grinchenko began his writing activity in this year; secondly, attending pedagogical courses in the summer of 1883 became a step in Grinchenko’s professional growth as a teacher; thirdly, at the teacher’s courses, he met Maria Gladylina — his future wife, and this meeting determined their future life and joint work for the benefit of Ukrainian culture and enlightenment. 1883 is the year that falls into the third period of Borys Grinchenko’s life identified by researchers as Slobozhanshchyna (1881–1885).
The novelty of the research lies in the fact that the analyzed documents made it possible to imagine and describe the life, activities, feelings, experiences, joys and disappointments of Borys Grinchenko during 1883, on his twentieth birthday. In the ego-documents, the private and professional appear seriously and as a joke, which is extremely valuable for revealing the personality of Borys Grinchenko and compiling his biography.
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