Bìblìotečnij vìsnik (Jan 2024)
Editions of Ukrainian studies in scientific library of Vasyl Shchavynskyi
Abstract
The purpose of the article based on the analysis of archival sources, to reconstruct the Ukrainian studies component of the scientific library of the outstanding Ukrainian art critic, collector, bibliophile and philanthropist Vasyl Oleksandrovich Shchavynskyi (1868-1924). The methodology of the article based on the use of source, archival, chronological, comparative, biographical and prosopographic research methods. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the fact that, for the first time, based on the analysis of archival sources deposited in the funds of the Institute of Manuscripts of the V. I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, a set of publications on Ukrainian studies that were part of the scientific library of V. Shchavynskyi was established. Conclusions. In the scientific library of V. Shchavynskyi, which the art critic painstakingly collected for several decades with the aim of donating it to the scientific institutions of Kyiv, an important part consisted of rare and valuable publications on Ukrainian studies. The collector managed to collect a large complex of scientific works on Ukrainian studies, artistic, memoir and journalistic Ukrainian literature, reference and illustrative publications about Ukraine, bibliographic sources on the history of the Ukrainian people and Ukrainian national state formation. The most valuable component of the scientist’s library collection were rare editions of T. Shevchenko’s works and scientifically valuable works about him. In the book collection of V. Shchavynsky, publications on Ukrainian studies were presented, which became a bibliographic rarity during the scientist’s lifetime and were published from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. and were printed in all regions of Ukraine, as well as in European and American countries. For most of his life, V. Shchavynskyi lived outside Ukraine, but he systematically studied its history, literature and culture, one of the proofs of which is the scientific collection of publications on Ukrainian studies in his library.
