48/8. Viktor Tkachenko

Viktor Tkachenko

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Leading Research Fellow of the  National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve «Pereyaslav»,

Pereiaslav, Ukraine

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-3430

DOI: 10.17721/2522-4611.2023.48.8

S. KULZHYNSKYI AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF PYSANKAS. THE EPISTOLARY

The purpose of the publication is to highlight the activities of S. Kulzhynskyi in the process of gathering a collection of pysankas for the Lubny Museum of K. M. Skarzhynska, as well as to prepare for publication the famous album-catalogue «Description of the Collection of Folk Pysankas» (1899) through the prism of scientific and epistolary heritage. At the same time, the main task is to introduce it into scientific circulation; to replenish the source and historiographical base.

The scientific novelty of the study is that it is the first to introduce the epistolary heritage of S. Kulzhynskyi related to the preparation for the publication of an album-catalogue of the collection of pysankas into scientific circulation.

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were marked by a significant rise in interest in Ukrainian folk art, including pysanka. Many researchers developed programmes for collecting information about pysankas, and private and museum collections began to form. In a short period of time, a number of publications by such well-known researchers as M. Sumtsov, V. Yastrebov, M. Korduba, and others were published. However, the most noteworthy is S. Kulzhynskyi's work on the formation of the collection of pysankas in the Lubny Museum of K. M. Skarzhynska and its processing with the subsequent publication of the catalogue. His work is still of interest to researchers today. The album-catalogue also became a source of knowledge and revival of pysankas in Ukraine in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries for many pysankas masters.

The formation of S. Kulzhynskyi's views on pysankas and his desire to work on the collection's catalogue are revealed to some extent by his letters to M. Sumtsov, which are reproduced in the appendices. They provide information about the work on the catalogue, the problems faced by the author, etc. In the future, it is worthwhile (if possible) to find and publish M. Sumtsov's letters to S. Kulzhynskyi, which would reveal the famous ethnographer's comments to the author of the catalogue on its publication and the extent to which the latter listened to his advice and suggestions.

Key words: S. Kulzhynskyi, M. Sumtsov, pysanka, catalogue, collection, letter, archive.

Received by the editorial board: 8.09.2023.

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