ARTISTIC DISPLAYS OF HISTORICAL FIGURES IN «HAYDAMAKY» OF T. SHEVCHENKO AND IN THE ROMANS OF K. POLISHCHUK

The article analyzes the image of historical figures in the novels of Klim Polishchuk and the poem «Haydamaky» by Taras Shevchenko. The analysis of works and their comparison with historical studies of the depicted period shows that historical facts in these works far from always correspond to historical reality. Klim Polishchuk, like Taras Shevchenko, sometimes departed from historical facts for greater imagery. However, it is clear that without sufficient knowledge of historical reality, it is impossible to create such works. So the difference between the historical truth and the depictions in the works is absolutely conscious and serves the purpose of the writers. Trying to depict bulky, interesting characters, writers often deviate from the historical truth. Taras Shevchenko uses poetic illustrations, which encourage the reader not to consider the historical process as a collection of dry facts, and emotionally empathize. The novels of Klim Polischuk can not be called historic in the full sense of the word, since they were written by a contemporary of those stormy events, and some of the probable at that time facts were later refuted by historians. The system of images of Klim Polischuk is based on a combination of real historical figures and characters created by the artist's artistic imagination. The task of the poet Taras Shevchenko did not see that to recreate events and to portray outstanding historical figures as accurately as possible, but to be able to express their own thoughts about a particular historical event with the help of a poetic word.