Рукопис В.М. Хижнякова «О ревизии волостей в некоторых уездах Черниговской губернии в 1888 году» як джерело з історії земського лібералізму Північної України (1880-х рр.)

Abstract

The purpose of the study. The purpose of the publication is to introduce the found author’s work of V. Khyzhnyakov and its content analysis into the international scientific circulation. Work methodology. When writing the article, general scientific (methods of synthesis and analysis, deduction and induction) and special-historical (critical, problem-chronological methods, content analysis) research methodology was used, which in general ensured the achievement of the tasks set in the publication. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time in Ukrainian historical science, an analysis of the author’s manuscript of a member of the opposition aristocratic front of northern Ukraine, the mayor of Chernihiv V. Khyzhnyakov ‘About the revision of volosts in some counties of Chernihiv province in 1888’ was carried out. The author came to the conclusion that the researched work is an important source from the history of the Zemstvo liberal movement in the north of the Left Bank of Ukraine, which illustrates the ideological imperatives of ascetic practical activity of the Zemstvo liberal party of the Northern Left Bank. The conducted content analysis of the manuscript shows that it contains generalizations of a conceptual nature that reflect the main intentions of the social and economic program of the Zemstvo liberal movement, once again proving that the studied trend in the liberation movement of the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century had a self-sufficient and very promising vision of the future of the Russian Empire. The study of this topic will allow domestic historiography to significantly increase its achievements in the matter of forming a doctrinal vision of a large-scale liberation movement in the Russian Empire of the second half of the 19th century.