Lesia Ukrainka’s cooperation with the Ukrainian press (1905–1907)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to define on the basis of archival documents and Lesia Ukrainka’s episto-lary heritage the circumstances of her cooperation with mass media of the Russian Empire in the period 1905–1907, when Ukrainian newspapers and magazines were created in the Dnieper region and other cit-ies. The object of the study is mass media (projected periodicals and those published at that time), which published mostly literary works of art of the writer. The analysis includes archival materials related to projects and programs of the Ukrainian media of the early XXth century and creative work of Lesia Ukrainka. The research methods include biographical method, analogy, comparison, generalization, etc. It was found out that during 1905–1907 Lesiya Ukrainka was actively interested in new Ukrainian pe-riodicals, she has published a number of works (stories, poetry, translations, etc.) in the Ukrainian or pro-Ukrainian magazines in Odesa, Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Poltava; she has agreed to join the newspaper «Labor» and the children’s magazine «Star», which were never published.