DMYTRO BAHALII IS THE FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE TARAS SHEVCHENKO INSTITUTE AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO SHEVCHENKO STUDIES

Abstract

Background. Scientific archievements of academician Dmytro Bahalii, the author of more than 600 historical studies, in the field of literary studies include only up to fifty works. This article analysis for the first time the Shevchenko studies of D. Bahalii, which he worked on mostly at the end of his life.

Methods. The article wrote using general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, description, generalization), historical-literary, textological, and source studies (biographical, cultural-historical, comparative, heuristic, critical).

Results. The work of the scientist in researching of documents and legends about the poet are clarified. The contribution of scientist to establishing the role of the Cyril and Methodius brotherhood in the life and work of T. Shevchenko is outlined. A review of D. Bahalii work aboute the Cyril-Methodius was introduced into scientific circulation.

The participation of D. Bahalii in the appearance of some editions of T. Shevchenko’s works: “Kobzar” (1918), “Heretic”, “Dream. Caucasus: two poems” (both –1927) was determined. During the preparation of the article, the history of the appearance of 12 drawings for the “Kobzar” (1918) created by Karel Nemets was found out. 

The employment of the Committee for organizing the publication of T. Shevchenko’s works under the leadership of D. Bahalii is outlined. The scientist reviewed the eighth volume of the artistic heritage for a complete collection of works of the poet and artist, prepared by Ol. Novytskyi. For the first time, a number of documents from the archive of D. Bahalii are introduced into scientific circulation, for example, the article “Seventieth anniversary of the death of T. H. Shevchenko”, autographs of published works, protocols of 1929–1930th years, official letters. All these materials are stored in the Department of Manuscript Collections and Textology of T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (f. 37)

Conclusions. D. Bahalii researching in Shevchenko studies includes only three books, several prefaces, and more than ten scientific and scientific popularization articles. As one of the organizers and the first head of the Taras Shevchenko Institute, D. Bahalii together with his employees, despite persistent attempts by the authorities to turn the poet and the Institute named after him into a mouthpiece of the Marxist-Leninist ideology, managed to establish the authority of this institution and lay the foundation for its further development.

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