Place of Ancient Kyiv in the Creative Fate of Maksym Rylskyi

Author

SobolValentyna

a Doctor of Philology, a professor of the University of Warsaw (Warsaw, the Republic of Poland). ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0484-6874

Place of Ancient Kyiv in the Creative Fate of Maksym Rylskyi

Abstract

A unique study by Maksym Rylskyi Kyiv in the History of Ukraine, written in 1943 in honor of the liberation of the capital of Ukraine from fascist invaders, is analyzed in the article. The authoress of the article is substantiating the opinion that Rylskyi has resorted to a new regime of historicity. It is formulated later by Pierre Nora, a pupil of the French school of the Annals, who calls the projects of places of memory and ego-history to be two sides of the same coin. The authoress of the article attaches special importance to the first part of Rylskyi’s work, outlines the cultural and literary places of memory of ancient Kyiv from the earliest chronicles to the Baroque period – Sophia of Kyiv, Golden Gate, St. Andrew’s Church, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Old Kyiv Printing House. Rylskyi only outlines the ego-stories of the Middle Ages and Baroque in dotted lines: Yaroslav the Wise, Hilarion of Kyiv, Halshka Hulevychivna, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi, Petro Mohyla, Hryhorovych-Barskyi, and others. In the second part of Rylskyi’s work the significance of Kyiv in the culture of the 19th and 20th centuries is approached. V. Sobol applies the concept of semiophores introduced by Krzysztof Pomian to its analysis.

Keywords

Ancient Kyiv, St. Sophia, Middle Ages, Baroque, places of memory and ego-history, semiophores.

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