Researches of Kharkiv’s Theater Culture of the 19th and the first half of the 20th cc.: Problems of Historiography

Yu.Yu Poliakova

doi:10.34064/khnum1-51.08

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Researches of Kharkiv’s Theater Culture of the 19th and the first half of the 20th cc.: Problems of Historiography

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Due to the lack of an entire elaborated bibliographic system, researchers have to engage themselves in painstaking browsing through the entire corpus of periodicals
Ustinov is famous as the compiler of the bibliographic index “The Books on Kharkov Governorate” (1886), with certain information on the history of theater in this city
The analysis of historiography concerning the theater in Kharkiv of the 19th and early 20th cc. enables the author to come to conclusion that the main challenges a modern researcher has to face are as follows: the absence of system in bibliographic manuals; lacunas in the funds of periodicals of most libraries; the absence of important documents in archives

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One of its most urgent tasks is to reveal just how much the scientific approach is applied to creating a historical paper This goes hand in glove with studies into sociopolitical and scientific worldview of authors of the researches, the sources used, the interpretation of facts as well as the style of material’s presentation. The author has chosen to apply the traditional cultural-historic method of research It generally consists of collecting primary information on a certain phenomenon or a prominent figure, working it out, finding its correlation with appropriate historic events, and making an attempt to substantiate the meaning and importance of the phenomenon / figure studied, in the context of the development of arts in the region. In Kharkiv, the main sources of relevant information are such periodicals as the “Ukrainskiy vestnik” magazine (1816–1819) and some newspapers: “Kharkovskie gubernskie vedomosti” (1838–1915), “Yuzhnyy kray” (1880–1919), “Utro” (1906–1916), Kharkov (1877–1880), Kharkovskiy listok (1898–1905) and more

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