“It is Necessary to Get Enough that Europe, Not to Desire It”: Literary Environment of Soviet Ukraine of 1920s in Valerian Polishchuk’s Correspondence

Бонь, Олександр Іванович (2024) “It is Necessary to Get Enough that Europe, Not to Desire It”: Literary Environment of Soviet Ukraine of 1920s in Valerian Polishchuk’s Correspondence Київські історичні студії, 19 (2). pp. 93-99. ISSN 2524-0757

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Abstract

The article examines the ego-documents of the renowned Ukrainian poet Valerian Polishchuk, a representative of the Ukrainian Renaissance of the 1920s. The correspondence of the writer is of particular interest due to its richness and the important themes reRected in it. These are the poet’s letters to his wife, Olena Konukhes, which are archived in the Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Arts of Ukraine. The aim of the paper is to determine, based on the writer’s letters, the circumstances of his trips abroad as well as to characterize the complex relationships within the literary and artistic environment of the 1920s. Besides, to examine the poet’s epistolary, other documents are also studied. It is worth noting that the poet’s letters to Olena Konukhes have not been fully analysed in historiography. The most signiScant portion of the aforementioned letters is those written to the poet’s wife during his trip through Europe from the end of 1924 to the beginning of 1925. Together with Pavlo Tychyna and Oles Dosvitny, he Srst visited Moscow, where he had meetings with Vsevolod Meyerhold and other representatives of literary and artistic circles. During the trip, under the instructions of the People’s Commissariat for Education, he established connections with artists, including Ukrainian emigrants. It is obvious that the State Political Directorate monitored such trips, and Valerian Polishchuk’s journey with his colleagues was no exception. Thus, V. Polishchuk’s epistolary allows to observe from within the significant events of the poet’s life but also the broader literary and artistic intellectuals’ environment of Soviet Ukraine in all their complexity and contradictions

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Valerian Polishchuk; Oles Dosvitny; Pavlo Tychyna; literary and artistic environment; correspondence; ego-documents; Ukrainian intellectuals
Subjects: Статті у базах даних > Erih Plus
Статті у базах даних > Index Copernicus
Статті у періодичних виданнях > Фахові (входять до переліку фахових, затверджений МОН)
Divisions: Факультет суспільно-гуманітарних наук > Кафедра історії України
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email kiu.fshn@kubg.edu.ua
Date Deposited: 23 Dec 2024 10:23
Last Modified: 23 Dec 2024 10:23
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/50798

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