ВІДОБРАЖЕННЯ В СУЧАСНИХ ДИСЕРТАЦІЙНИХ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯХ ПОСТАТІ ПЕТРА КАЛНИШЕВСЬКОГО

Abstract

he purpose of this article is a scientific analysis of the reflection in modern dissertations the figure of the last Kish Ataman of Zaporoz’ka Sich Petro Kalnyshevsky. Chronological boundaries of the study are 1991-2020. During the research general scientific, historical and special-historiographical methods there were used: historiographical analysis and synthesis, biographical, comparative historical and systemic historical, biobibliographical methods. The article deals with the main theoretical and methodological approaches of historians to the study of the figure of Kish Ataman P. Kalnyshevsky as a scientific issue. The degree of the reflection of the most important questions of P. Kalnyshevsky’s biography, his entourage and the formation of a worldview and moral portrait of the Zaporozhian leader in dissertational researches is found out. The coverage and scientists’ interpretation of the economic policy of the Kish Ataman is revealed in dissertations, there are characterized their views on P. Kalnyshevsky’s military operations and military skills, his participation in the Russian-Turkish wars in the eighteenth century . In the dissertational researches of historians there are examined the key disclosure tendencies of charitable actions and spiritual world of P. Kalnyshevsky . During the years of Ukraine's independence, the figure of Petro Kalnyshevsky was comprehensively studied in own dissertations by Yuriy Shovkun and Halyna Kotsur, certain aspects of his life and activity, issues of historiography were analyzed by Svitlana Andreeva, Aliona Brovko, Vita Kotsur, Igor Lyman, Oleksandr Miruschenko and others. The emphasis is placed on the originality of their scientific works and their significance for modern national historiography. There are outlined the insufficiently studied aspects of the issue , the areas of further researches are identified.