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2024 #5 Bilous V.

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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 5 (179), 1058—1072

UDK 908(479):[94-051:001.891](477)”18/19″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

THE CAUCASIAN STUDIES VECTOR IN THE RESEARCH OF MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKYI

BILOUS Vira

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7848-180X
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences,
  • Senior Researcher,
  • The Institute of Ethnology of the NSU,
  • The Department of Modern Ethnology,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: bilka3@gmail.com

HUZII Roman

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4134-956X
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences,
  • Senior Researcher,
  • The Institute of Ethnology of the NSU,
  • The Department of Modern Ethnology,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: etnomod@ukr.net

Abstract. Problem Statement. The multifaceted legacy of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi covers, in addition to Ukrainian studies, the most diverse  directions of world humanitarian studies, in particular, the area of historical and ethnographic studies of the Caucasus. The scientist’s analytical judgments in this field are scattered in his colossal output and have not received adequate coverage in national historiography. Their understanding will help clarify the contribution of M. Hrushevskyi to the knowledge of world history and form a more complete idea of the breadth of his ascetic scientific work.

The purpose of the article is to reveal M. Hrushevskyi’s achievements in Caucasian studies, determine his novelty and role in the national and foreign historical-scientific discourse of the 19th-early 20th centuries, and determine his significance for the intellectual heritage of Ukraine and the Caucasus.

The biographical method made it possible to detect the origins of M. Hrushevskyi’s scientific interest in the traditional heritage of the peoples of the Caucasus; the method of historiographical analysis made it possible to establish the specificity of the scientist’s ethnographic researches and their place in the historical concept of M. Hrushevskyi; the comparative-historical method made it possible to determine the innovation of his research in the specified area.

The analysis of Hrushevskyi’s heritage resulted in determining of his work in the field of ethnology, ethnic history, archeology of the peoples of the North Caucasian, Kartvelian and Iranian language families of the Caucasus. The primacy of M. Hrushevskyi in the study of Ossetian-Ukrainian convergences in decorative and applied art has been established.

The conclusions emphasize the conceptual significance of M. Hrushevskyi’s Caucasian studies for solving the issues of ethnic history and ethnospecificity of the traditional culture of Ukrainians, as well as for ethnology of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia..

Keywords: M. Hrushevskyi, peoples of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia, Caucasian studies, ethnic history, ethnography, archaeology, source studies, Adyghe, Ossetians, Georgians, Alans.

Received 29.08.2024

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