The Ethnology Notebooks. 2025. № 6 (186), 1419—1433
UDK [061.22Просвіта:372.41(075)(=161.2)]”1871″
DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/
LOCAL LORE THEMES IN THE MATERIALS OF THE PROSVITA READER FOR THE ACADEMIC GYMNASIUM (1871)
PASHUK Volodymyr
- ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3536-1848
- Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher
- of the Modern History Department,
- Institute of Ukrainian Studies named after I. Kryp’yakevych
- of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
- 4, Kozelnytska St., 79026, Lviv, Ukraine,
- Contacts: e-mail: volparo@gmail.com
Abstract. The article examines the local history and ethnographic material contained in the gymnasium newspaper «The Reader» published by Lviv «Prosvita Society» in 1871. First of all, revealing the prerequisites for the emergence of «The Reader», it is noted that this educational public organization contributed to the transformation of the Lviv Academic Gymnasium into a Ukrainian one by publishing textbooks and manuals. It is established that 15 articles contained local lore topics, although they were not moved into a separate subsection. The relevance is determined by the lack of research on this topic. The goal is to find out the subject and determination of local history and ethnographic materials contained in the gymnasium newspaper «The Reader». The subject of the study is local history and ethnographic materials in publications. The object is «The Reader» as educational material for the Academic Gymnasium. The sourceof the study is local history and ethnographic materials contained in «The Reader». The research methodology methods are: description, complex and structural analysis, synthesis. It is established that the main feature of the materials was that they were not prepared specifically for this almanac, but were collected by compilers from different sources and belonged to different authors, which determined their content, nature and method of presenting the material. Probably the exception is the very first article «The Native Land» which also served as a title. It outlines the concept of texts that had a clearly expressed local history character. It is proven that the content of the articles that had a local history basis, was distinguished by different accents. The material concerned: information about individual regions — different areas of Galicia, which dominated, Southern and Ukrainian Slobozhansk; historical information about various monuments, ancient castles, mainly about their purpose and later state, that led to their destruction; important Christian shrines — Krekhiv and Hoshiv monasteries, as sacred places of pilgrimage.
Keywords: «Prosvita» Society, «The Reader» published by Academic Gymnasium, local history materials, ethnographic materials, Opillya, Podillya, Verkhovyna, Galicia, Kharkiv region, Steppe.
Received 15.10.2025
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