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Oleksa Kovalenko and Maksym Rylskyi: A Discourse of Relationships

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Bulanova Nataliia
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Bulanova, N. (2020) Oleksa Kovalenko and Maksym Rylskyi: A Discourse of Relationships. Materials to Ukrainian Ethnology, 19 (22), 96–107.

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BulanovaNataliia

a Ph.D. in History, a director of the Museum of History of the City of Kamianske (Kamianske of Dnipropetovsk Oblast, Ukraine). ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9817-3668

 

Oleksa Kovalenko and Maksym Rylskyi: A Discourse of Relationships

 

Abstract

The purpose of the article. Epistolary heritage is used as the base of the article. The mutual relations between a famous in the Dnieper Ukraine literary man, translator, cultural worker and public figure, doctor by profession O. Kovalenko and the prominent Ukrainian poet, publicist, linguist, literary critic, director of the AS of the Ukrainian SSR Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnography in the historical context of the 1940s – 1960s are described in the article.

Methods. Historical-biographical, problematic and chronological, proposographic methods are used in the article.

The main results. The analysis of historiography on the considered issue is carried out. We have concluded that until now the problem remains unexplored in the scientific literature. The research source of the investigation is based on the epistolary heritage, kept at the NAS of Ukraine Institute of Literature. Most of it has been published in N. Bulanova monograph Fascinatedwith the Word. It has been ascertained that starting from 1944, for many years, there have been constant contacts between O. Kovalenko and M. Rylskyi, based on a mutual interest in translation of TheTaleofIhor’sCampaign. Three main subject lines of correspondence over 1944–1962 are determined and analyzed. These are O. Kovalenko reflexions on the events of private, social and public nature he has to experience, features of work on translation of TheTaleofIhor’sCampaign, and also M. Rylskyi historical and ethnological activity as academic scientist.

It is proved that the duration of their communication is based on the similarity of life experience, a circle of common friends and interests. Despite the fact, that O. Kovalenko is not a professional translator, M. Rylskyi has been thoughtful to his advices in the work on translation. Attention is paid on that O. Kovalenko has felt a spiritual vacuum after the death of D. Yavornytskyi. They have been connected by many years of cooperation in collecting antiquities. This has become one of the reasons for correspondence with M. Rylskyi.

Originality. The research is executed after the little-known sources, the majority of which are introduced into the scientific circulation for the first time.

The practical value of the article consists in the possibility of use of the results of the research at the development of special courses, and also in the local history educational projects. 

The scientific novelty is in the raising and working out of the problem relevant for intellectual biography studies. It is the relationships of creative personalities in the context of a historical epoch, which has not been described comprehensively and objectively in historical science yet. During research the source base is expended owing to the introduction of an epistolary heritage of O. Kovalenko and M. Rylskyi to the scientific circulation.

 

Keywords

Oleksa Kovalenko, Maksym Rylskyi, biography, works, mutual relations, translation, epistolary heritage, The Tale of Ihor’s Campaign.

 

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