ПРИЗАБУТИЙ ШЕВЧЕНКІВ ПРИЯТЕЛЬ – АНТОН АНДРІЙОВИЧ ГЛУШАНОВСЬКИЙ

Abstract

Studies about Shevchenko traditionally remains one of the most priority directions of scientific studies in Ukraine. The scale of Shevchenko`s personality gives an opportunity for each of new generation of researchers to participate in the study of his iconic for Ukrainians figure and his environment. Since the formation of studies about Shevchenko, biographical studies which surrounding Kobzar, remains one of the most important directions. The article is devoted to reconstruction of Anton Andriiovych Hlushanovskyi (1815–1902) life path – one of the Shevchenkos contemporaries, who was considered as a friend of Taras Hryhorovych. Unfortunately, during recent decades, Shevchenko’s experts, have not demonstrated significant progress in the study of the figure of A. A. Hlushanovskyi. Also this thesis is confirmed by reference about him in the most authoritative publication about Kobzar – Shevchenko Encyclopedia. In return, Gogol scholars achieved certain success in studying of his biography as a contemporary of M. V. Hogol. O. Suproniuk discovered new materials in the archives of Ukraine and russian federation, which were used to write a biographical reference about Hlushanovskyi. A separate group is formed by researchers who integrate our character into the story Kyiv University. His surname is mentioned in the first stories of St. Volodymyr University (V. Ya. Shulgin and M. F. Vladimirskii-Budanov), but not as a contemporary of Shevchenko. On the pages of these publications, he becomes as one of the first graduation (1838) of the University and its syndicate. We see the task of the article in the reproduction of the most complete biography A. A. Hlushanovskyi with the help of all available materials, especially autobiographical. We hope that the information which has been made public will contribute to the intensification of the search for new documents that will help shed light on the little-known pages of the biography of T. H. Shevchenko, and on the early history of the University that now bears his name.