From the epistolary heritage of the editors of “Ukrainskaya zhizn’” magazine (1912–1917) (Moscow)

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the letters of the editors of “Ukrainskaya zhizn’” (“Ukrainian Life”) magazine (1912-1917) (Moscow) A. Salikovsky and S. Petlyura, stored in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and federal archives. The letters contain information about the activities of the editorial, cooperation with the editors of a Moscow magazine called “Golos Minuvshego” and the newspaper “Russkie Vedomosti”, as well as the editorial activities of A. Salikovsky before moving to Moscow. Of particular interest are the letters addressed to academician V. Vernadsky, academician F. Korsh, “a friend of Ukrainians”, who collaborated with the editorial, to P. Milyukov, the chairman of the fraction in the party Narodnaya Svoboda (“People’s Freedom”) in the State Duma. The article uses both published and unpublished letters from 1908, 1910, 1912-1915. The publication introduces new documentary sources about the activities of the editors of “Ukrainskaya zhizn’” magazine into scientific circulation and may be of interest to historians, researchers of the biography of A. Salikovsky and S. Petlyura.