Kish Ataman of Zaporozhian Sich Petro Kalnyshevsky on the Pages of Encyclopedic Editions, Dictionaries and Reference Books

Abstract

The purpose of the article is the issue’s clarification of reflection of the figure of the last kish ataman of Zaporozhian Sich P. Kalnyshevsky on the pages of encyclopedic publications, dictionaries and reference books. Chronological boundaries of the study are the end of the XIX – the beginning of the XXI century. There are used the historical-comparative, historical-typological, historical-system methods during a covering of the topic. The heroic figure of the last kish ataman of Zaporozhian Sich P. Kalnyshevsky was reflected mainly in monographs, collections of documents, scientific articles, local lore, materials of scientific conferences, educational literature, periodicals. At the same time, it is remained out the attention of researchers its coverage in the pages of encyclopedias, dictionaries and reference books. Scientific research refers to encyclopedic, dictionary and reference books, which contain articles about P. Kalnyshevsky as an important historiographical source. There is analyzed the reflection of the figure of the Zaporozhian leader in different historiographical periods. It fits generally into the context of the general development of Ukrainian and foreign historical science. Prolonged silence in the historical science about P. Kalnyshevsky was accompanied by various conjectures, distortions of facts and falsification. Historical science become an ideological servant of the totalitarian regime, in the Soviet era. It considered the history of the New Sich and the figure of P. Kalnyshevsky simplified mostly and distorted, from the so-called party-class approaches. Radical changes in the approaches of Ukrainian historians to the history of the Cossacks and their leaders, including to P. Kalnyshevsky, took place after the restoration of state independence of Ukraine in 1991. The revival of national traditions of Ukrainian historical science began, the methodology and topics of scientific research were updated, and there was intensified the integration of domestic historiography into European and world historiography. All this affected the reflection of the figure of P. Kalnyshevsky on the pages of encyclopedic and reference books, dictionaries.