Library activities of Ivan Luchytskyi and historical destiny of his personal library

Abstract

The article is devoted to historian Ivan Vasilyevich Luchitskii, who is known due to his scientific publications about French agriculture. His interest in the library work as well as the thematic structure of his personal book collection is proved to be closely connected with scientific interests and socio-political activities of the scientist. The tracing of provenance of the books in the personal collection of historian are an interesting and necessary element of given article, which allow further retrieval of documents from Ivan Luchitskii library in different stacks of Ukraine.

Keywords

• Ivan Luchitskii, personal library, historical and bibliographic reconstruction.