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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2025. № 1 (181), 61—70

UDK 94(477)”18/19″:821.161.2-94

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

TRAVELS IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES BY GALICIAN UKRAINIANS TO NADNIPRIAN UKRAINE: EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY

BARAN Zoya

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9685-3953
  • Candidate of History, Associate Professor, 
  • Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 
  • Department of World Modern History, 
  • 1, Universytetska str., 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts:  е-mail: zoja_baran@ukr.net

Abstract. Introduction. Trips around Ukraine should be considered not only as an important means of recreation, accumulation of factual material about the historical past. They play an important role in the formation of national identity of Ukrainians and preservation of historical memory.

Problem Statement. Travelling to Naddniprianshchyna was not very frequent for Galicians. Contacts between western and eastern Ukrainians were almost exclusively cultural, and few mutual visits were made among a limited circle of intellectuals.

The purpose of the article is to identify, on the basis of the memoirs of famous Galician Ukrainians about their travels to Greater Ukraine, how the imaginary image of the Naddniprians corresponded to reality.

Methods. General scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as special scientific comparative-historical and chronological methods are used in the article. The author adheres to the principle of historicism.

Results. Trips from Galicia to Naddniprianshchyna were still rare in the early twentieth century. The motives for travelling were primarily national.The obstacles included not so much material difficulties as passport obstacles from the Russian administration. First impressions of Naddniprianshchyna and Kyiv were usually the same: admiration for its vastness and grandeur, and for the historical monuments of Kyiv. Crowded meetings of Ukrainians from both parts of Ukraine most often occurred on the occasion of celebrations of significant events in the history of the Ukrainian people. The most unfortunate were the impressions of the continuous Russification of the city: inscriptions in Russian and its use on the streets, the presence of a significant number of monuments intended to commemorate Ukraine’s defeat in the struggle for statehood and symbolise unity with Russia. Among the reasons for this situation, intellectuals named ignorance of Ukrainian history, lack of its popularisation and national education.

Conclusion. The Galician journeys ended in disappointment because of the discrepancy between the imaginary image of the Naddniprians and reality. But they were of great importance for the realisation of the national unity of Ukrainians divided by borders and the commonality of their historical past.

Keywords: Ukraine, Galicia, unity, culture, О. Barvinsky, Y. Olesnytskyi, K. Trillovsky, O. Nazaruk, O. Fedak, T. Okunevsky, I. Kedryn-Rudnytskyi.

Received 8.02.2025

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