Short Paper: Въпросът за руско-украинското единство и за обособеността на украинците в творчеството на Юрий Гуца-Венелин

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Pages: 182-192

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Within his short creative life Yuriy Venelin (whose genuine name was George Gutsa, 1802–1839), a Transcarpathian by origin, one of the founders of Slavonic studies in Russia, the first researcher of history and culture of the Bulgarians, wrote more than 60 scientific works on History, Ethnology, Study of Folklore, Philology of Slavic peoples. In the article paid to some aspects of Y. Venelin’s scientific heritage that concern his vision of commonality and distinction of the Ukrainians and the Russians. A lot of factors influenced on his point of view: ancestry, education, messages of Romanticism, traditions of Historiography, intellectual background. In some works Y. Venelin wrote about ethnic unity of “severyany” (the Russians) and “yuzhany” (the Ukrainians), that form an integrated “Russian nation”. However he saw significant differences between them – in the languages, song creation, territory of settlement. In the argumentation between the “severyany” and “yuzhany” about their belonging to Kyivan Rus heritage Y. Venelin took the part of the “yuzhany”. His views were an attempt both to emancipate the Ukrainian history and not to dissolve finally with the “Russian” unity.

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