Pogranicze polsko-rosyjskie (do roku 1863). Zagadnienia i postacie

Abstract

The author analyzes the origins of the Polish-Russian borderlands, starting from the 16th century (the works of Andrei Kurbsky, the activities of the book printer Ivan Fedorov), and presents the role of the Kiev-Mohylan Collegium of the 17th century in the convergence of Orthodox cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Moscow state. Particular importance in this convergence is attached to the student of the college, Symeon Polotsky, as well as to his students: Sylvester Medvedev, Karion Istomin and Yan Byalobotsky, and later, in the first decades of the 18th century, Stefan Yavorsky and Feofan Prokopovich. “Slavic” programs and folklore activities of the early 19th century show the role of such active and creative Polish and Russian personalities as Adam Charnotsky, Thaddeus Bulgarin, Osip Senkovsky and Adam Honorius Kirkor. The author also draws attention to the unrealized role of the bilingual Warsaw magazine “Dennitsa-Jutrzenka”. Formed in the 19th century Russian-Ukrainian and Polish-Belarusian borderlands no longer influenced the further development of Polish- Russian borderlands.