"He, By Whom, Was Ignited and Inflamed" (Shots to The Genesis of T. Shevchenko's Military Image in The Historiosophic Visions of E. Malanyuk)

Abstract

Introduction. E. Malanyuk in some publications claimed that "all theenthusiasm, all the energy, all the tension" and even "dynamism" of the national revolution of 1917, and accordingly to the subsequent events of the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people "was given" precisely by T. Shevchenko. In modern historical science, such assertion contains clear signs of occasionalism. But if it is important to study the Shevchenkiana of the warrior writer, then we will find many arguments there that sufficiently substantiate such an author's belief. The study's purpose is to attempt to find more realistic explanations for the genesis of T. Shevchenko's military image in E. Malanyuk's work.
Methods. The instruments of biographical, cultural-historical, psychoanalytic, comparative, and hermeneutic methods, as well as methods of mythopoetic, motive, and intertextual analysis were used.
Results . For the first time, the military image of T. Shevchenko was discovered in the poetic "Tale" by E. Malanyuk, which was published in 1916. So, the contours of the military image of T. Shevchenko in E. Malanyuk were formed even before the beginning of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people in 1917–1921, that is, in his youth. Further, this image is present not only in the poetic but also in the prose work of E. Malanyuk. Since part of the writer's prose can be considered literature of fact, it was in one of such publications that it was possible to discover quite realistic events of national history, which, even in his youth, prompted E. Malanyuk to the vision of the military image of T. Shevchenko.
Conclusions . It is revealed that the commemoration of T. Shevchenko in 1914 in Kyiv, in particular, described in the article "Why We Don't Believe Them", became one of the realistic impetuses for the creation of the military image of T. Shevchenko, which is "eternally alive" in the work of E. Malanyuk and periodically "resurrects" with new force in critical periods of national history.