Slavs Research Articles

Religious security as a component of the national security of Ukraine: actualization of the problem in wartime

The article updates the issue of religious security of Ukraine, which is a component of national security. For a long time, despite expert assessments, this problem was not taken into account by the state and society, however, religious security is an important part of general national security, and this issue is relevant not only for Ukraine. The article analyzes threats to religious security provoked by Russian armed aggression. The concept of the "Ukrainian world" as the living space of Ukrainians in its historiographical, axiological, ontological, and existential content should become the dominant basis for the formation of religious security in its relationship with national security. The main vectors for the need to observe the religious security of modern Ukraine and to prevent irreparable damage to the national and state security of Ukraine with the use of the religious factor are highlighted: legal and legal; social and civil; institutional and organizational; worldview-ideological; educational and educational; military chaplain. The authors draw attention to the danger of the existence in Ukraine of those religious organizations that are affiliated with the aggressor country - organizationally, historically, mentally, culturally, linguistically - and prove that the narratives promoted by these structures in sermons, communication, comments, and holo - even in the actions of their religious leaders, affirm in Ukraine foreign values of "Russian world", "one Slavic and Orthodox people", "Moscow - the third Rome", etc. The authors prove that the activity of anti-Ukrainian institutions should be banned. According to the authors, this does not contradict the principles of freedom of conscience and religion, but protects the Ukrainian people from hostile ideological and religious influences that led to a large-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.

O Ekmečićevom metodu izučavanja i razumevanja pojma nacije i nacionalizma

Research into the life and work of Milorad Ekmečić shows that this eminent historian dedicated a significant portion of his scholarly efforts to studying the emergence, development, aspirations, and goals of the South Slavs' national revival. In accordance with the Western European historiographical tradition , he often referred to this as "nationalism." Ekmečić's research interest in various aspects of the topic can be traced back to the early days of his academic career. Over the years, with accumulated experience, he delved deeper into the subject, approached it from various angles, and examined it from multiple perspectives. In his research, he acted not only as a historian of the past but also as an analyst of ideas and a philosopher of history. His insights into the origins, definitions, interpretations , and evolution of the concept of nation and nationalism significantly contributed to the study of this subject.

Духовно-нравственные ценности населения Дальнего Востока России в начале ХХ в. в контексте межэтнических отношений (по произведениям И.У. Басаргина)

The paper analyzes the interaction of local and alien peoples in Primorye at the stage of its development by Slavic settlers from the point of view of spiritual and moral foundations and values. Owing to the great temporal separation of the period under study from the present and the impossibility of the searching for informants, the novels by I.U. Basargin, which are distinguished by documentary accuracy of description, historicity and covering a large time period — from the first settlers to the end of the Civil War came to be the study`s subject matter. Information about interethnic relations and spiritual and moral values was revealed in literary works and compared with the already available scientific materials. The dynamics of spiritual and moral values is analyzed on the basis of M. Scheler's concept of Ordo Amoris, a certain moral formula of a person, in accordance with which relations between values are built in the inner world of a particular moral subject. The study shows that the contacts of the newcomer Slavic peoples, namely the Russian Old Believers, with the natives and the Chinese, took place, on the whole, peacefully, thanks to the firm adherence of the settlers to universal human values. The Ordo Amoris community had become a guarantee of good neighborliness and mutual assistance, while its violation — the promotion of personal enrichment and power — led to crimes, violation of moral principles, and the destruction of peaceful coexistence.

The significance of comparative studies of the medieval state and law of Slavic peoples in V.I. Ermolovich’s works for legal Slavic studies

The significance of comparative studies of the medieval state and law of Slavic peoples in V.I. Ermolovich’s works for legal Slavic studies

Проект Всеславянской художественно-промышленной выставки в Петербурге: 1902–1912

The paper examines the All-Slavic Art and Industry Exhibition. Preparations took 10 years: from 1902 to 1912. Using archival materials and early 20th century periodicals, the author analyses the exhibition as part of a global trend toward national and international art exhibitions and as a reflection of the St. Petersburg art scene at the turn of the 20th century, which welcomed contemporary art from various countries: from Germany to Japan. The exhibition was organized by the Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society, which established a dedicated Exhibition Committee. The committee secured permission from the Tsar and funding from the Minister of Finance to carry out the project. The exhibition aimed to foster new trade contacts and showcase the unity and cohesion of the Slavic peoples in response to the perceived threat of cultural expansion by Hungary and Germany. As attendees showed increasing enthusiasm for the exhibition, the organizers expanded their plans, making them more ambitious and costly. However, the exhibition ultimately did not take place due to foreign policy issues. This study contextualizes the All-Slavic exhibition within the political climate of the time and explores the role of art in international diplomacy. Additionally, the research highlights other All-Slavic art exhibition projects, including those held abroad.

К вопросу о дихотомии образа змеи в южнославянской традиции

An appeal to figurative representations preserved by folk tradition is an attempt to study mentality, understanding the world of a particular culture. Immersion in the world of mythological and fairy-tale formations makes it possible to reveal social representations, the specifics of intercultural interaction at the level of folk tradition. The relevance of this article lies in the possibility of identifying supra-ethnic processes of intercultural interaction in the South Slavic realm, as well as their social, cultural and ideological aspects. The symbolism of the snake in the cultures of various samples is known from Paleolithic times. According to a biological point of view, this is one of the most common groups of animals, neighboring in the past and today to humans all around the globe. Emotional perception of the quality of a snake (danger, secrecy, unusual appearance) and its mythological derivatives, make it possible to identify alternative, but common types of the snake image reflection that take place in Western and especially Eastern Slavic, Romanesque, Albanian, Germanic, Indo-Iranian, Greco-Roman and other mythological traditions. Their correct understanding of the ethical and aesthetic cultural paths of development of modern Slavic peoples, who have entered into a regulated dynamic cultural convergence with the whole world, is an urgent scientific and social task. The main sources of the article are songs, fairy tales, descriptions of the rituals of the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Bulgarians, Macedonians. Perception of the image of a snake and giving it fabulous and mythological features in historical times revealing the inconsistency of Slavic ideas about the objects present, their natural, emotional coloring of images and detection with a person.

Macedonian writer Venko Andonovski upon true and imaginary artistic values

The Macedonian writer Venko Andonovski (1964) in his works of recent decades (novels “The ABC for the Naughty,” “The Navel of the Earth,” “The Navel of the World,” etc.) and essays (“Dostoevsky and McDonald’s”) raises the issues of the axiology of modern literature, the integration of its value meanings into the worldview of contemporaries. The value dominants of fiction and their interpretation in the works of modern authors have become an important problem in the 21st century for Slavic countries, especially acute for authors of “small literatures”. Against the backdrop of major socio-political changes in recent decades, the commercialization of literature has become intensive and has seriously affected Slavic literatures. A modern writer often must choose between genuine creativity (a serious and deep understanding of the fate of his people, important events of our time, improving language and style, etc.) and the commercial success that a bestseller provides. Reflecting on the phenomenon of the bestseller, V. Andonovski sees in it a manifestation of globalization in art and calls it literary fast food. The writer figuratively calls the choice between genuine and imaginary artistic values a choice between Dostoevsky and McDonald’s. In essays and novels, V. Andonovski explores the importance of preserving national tradition and orientation towards the achievements of world literature, containing values of the highest spiritual order.

FREEDOM, THE IDEA OF FATHERLAND AND NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE. THE IMAGE OF SOUTHERN SLAVIC PEOPLES IN THE WRITINGS OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI

Between the end of the 1830s and the beginning of the 1860s, the condition of the Southern Slavs was thoroughly analysed by Giuseppe Mazzini, who strongly believed in a necessary and close connection between the aspiration for unity and independence of peoples subject to foreign domination and the founding principle of nationality. Mazzini's ideas, which originated from his general pro-European vision and, in particular, from his specific interest in the history and expression of the individual Southern Slavic cultures, focused, especially in the 1850s, on the role of the Russian Empire. This paper aims to compare, as far as the Southern Slavic question is concerned, Mazzini's political vision, with reference to his writings, in particular the "Slavic Letters" with the debate animated by Russian Panslavism through the writings by contemporary Russian historians, such as Aleksandr Pypin and Michail Pogodin.

Filozofia słowiańska w myśli filozoficznej słowackich romantyków – z polskimi śladami w tle

The author of the article focuses on introducing and interpreting the dispute over Slavic philosophy that took place in the 1840s in Slovak magazines (between J.M. Hurban, C. Zoch and P.Kellner-Hostinský). This dispute is an important testimony of the era, it concerned the fundamental issues of the time: the identity of Slovak culture, its philosophical background, its place and role in the Slavic world, its attitude to tradition. The author of the article focused primarily on two aspects of the “slovanská veda” project: the relation to German philosophy and the key cognitive category “viďeňja.” The author also points to the role that this dispute played in shaping the model of Slovak culture. Since the Slovak Romantic literary discourse has recently been enriched by many new revisions, the author also briefly refers, sometimes polemically, to the latest research.

Scientific Conference “Citizenship and Patriotism of Youth in the multi-confessional and multi-Ethnic Space of Russia” (XVII Safargaliev Scientific Readings) (October 26–27, 2023, Saransk)

The materials of the analytical report reflect the main directions and results of the All-Russian scientific conference “Citizenship and patriotism of youth in the multi-confessional and multi-ethnic space of Russia” (XVII Safargaliev Scientific Readings). The conference took place on October 26-27, 2023 at the National Research Mordovian State University and became a platform for dialogue between Slavic, Finn-Ugric and Turkic peoples, representatives of Orthodoxy and Islam.

Анималистические гротески в фольклоре и литературе славянских народов как художественный антидепрессант и релевантный элемент культурной грамотности

Songs with animalistic motifs are widely represented in the traditional culture of Slavic peoples. Songs with bird motifs clearly predominate, as most of them were originally connected with the archaic ritual of the bird wedding. In the course of their centuries of use, their erotic context has been reduced, and their social and didactic motifs have been strengthened. Embodied primarily in the form of grotesques (Czesław Hernas), these songs became an essential element of the cultural literacy (Eric Donald Hirsch) of the people and formed the basis of ethnopedagogy. The playful character and life-like plot collisions played a role of a peculiar psychotherapeutic means, which is confirmed by the reviews of ethnographers, as well as writers, who processed the folklore plots. In the culture of the Slavic peoples of the new time, the songs with bird motifs were most widespread, although the ritual of a bird wedding survived only among the Sorbs from Lusatia. Animalistic grotesques contributed to the socialization of a person, their awareness of themselves within various models of collective identity. This is why such poems and songs are especially relevant in the sphere of modern recreational culture, including in the field of preschool pedagogy.

THE EXISTENCE OF CERTAIN ETHNIC GROUPS IN ODESA IN THE CONDITIONS OF OCCUPATION 1941–1944

The article is devoted to the existence of certain ethnic groups in Odesa under the conditions of occupation in 1941–1944. After all, the national policy of the Romanian occupation authorities in Odesa not only directly influenced the life strategy of representatives of certain ethnic groups of the city population, but in some cases the very possibility of survival or death depended on, which was recorded in the passport in the «nationality» column. It has been proved that three ethnic groups received the greatest privileges from the new government: Germans, Romanians and Moldovans. Since the ethnic Germans outside Germany were perceived by the Hitler government as representatives of a superior race, who were to be used in the new territories as allies in the implementation of the occupation policy, a separate unit of the SS «R» was created to work with the German population of Transnistria Governorate, which was subordinate to the Main Board of Repatriation of ethnic Germans «Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle». It was established that the Romanian government understood the need to focus its national policy on the Moldavian ethnic community in the region, because it was this population that was to become the support of the government in the temporarily occupied territory. That is, Moldovans began to be considered an ethnic group of the Romanian population. It is significant that about 250,000 Moldovans lived in the territory between the Dniester and the Bug, who were concentrated as much as possible in the villages along the Dniester. However, despite the loss of population in the first year of the war, the number of such residents decreased to 198,000. The occupiers immediately began to implement the priority policy of this particular nation. Therefore, the main bet was placed on them, as the support of the government in the new territories. Moldovans were declared an ethnic group of the Romanian population. The desire of the Romanian authorities is understandable: in this way they proved that this is historically their territory and they came «to protect their population». As for the attitude towards the Slavic peoples, namely Ukrainians, Russians, Bulgarians and Poles, all the documents show that they had a much lower status in the occupied city. Their position cannot in any way be compared with the attitude of the occupying power towards the privileged Romanians and Germans. Yes, they were not totally exterminated, like Romani people or Jews. Rather, they were seen as a necessary labour resource to be fully subjugated by the new masters. Therefore, in the case of loyalty to the occupiers, nothing formally threatened them, but it is quite difficult to call the conditions of their existence «absolutely favourable». The situation of the local Jews was the most difficult. A sufficient number of documents and studies have been presented, which prove that the policy of the Romanian occupation authorities in relation to them was dictated by the doctrine of the ethnocratic state and, as a result, provided for the total destruction of the local Jewish population. The attitude towards the Jews was understandable and became a continuation of political processes and the involvement of Romania in the sphere of influence of Germany. The Holocaust of the Jews of Bukovina and the Jews of the Old Kingdom, Bessarabia or Transnistria was dictated by the doctrine of the ethnocratic state. At the meeting of the Council of Ministers on February 7, 1941, I. Antonescu first raised the issue of introducing measures against the Romani people. As a result, a number of orders appeared where the main mechanism of the Romanian government became deportation from the territory of Romania to Transnistria. But it is important to note that, we have not found a single document in the archives about the relations between the occupation authorities and the Romani people directly in Odesa. Considering that according to the census of 1942 there were only 5 of them, we can allow not to consider them as a representative separate group. Consequently, Odesa citizens were forced to build a strategy for their survival in the conditions of occupation in accordance with the entry in the column «nationality» in the passport. On the highest steps of this cynical «racial pyramid», the occupiers placed Moldovans, Romanians and Germans. Below them were supposed to be Ukrainians, Russians, Poles and representatives of other ethnic groups of multinational Odesa. And somewhere outside this pyramid, the doomed Jews and Romani people were pushed out.

Заключительные «Исторические письма» В.И. Ламанского (предисловие к публикации)

The article introduces the publication of the fragments of the sixth “Historical Letter on the Attitude of the Russian People to their Tribesmen” and the conclusion prepared by Vladimir Ivanovich Lamansky, a Slavophile and professor at St. Petersburg University. It is noted that other works of the scientist, on which he worked in the following years, remained unfinished. The facts allowing to indicate the date of writing the “Historical Letters” are given: 1859–1862, work interrupted by Lamansky's trip abroad (1862–1864). It is suggested that the “Historical Letters” were a continuation of the research direction outlined by Lamansky in his master's thesis “On the Slavs in Asia Minor, Africa and Spain” (1859), i.e. they were the result of his archival and desk work. The trip to the Slavic lands enriched the scholar with real knowledge of the Slavic peoples, their history and current situation, which made many of the arguments in the “Historical Letters” irrelevant. There are two subjects that Lamansky touched upon in his “last” letters, and which were further developed in his research and work. Firstly, these are the works in the field of national ethnography: his long-term leadership of the ethnographic department of the Russian Geographical Society, the organisation of the Slavic Congress and the Ethnographic Exhibition in 1867, the publication of the ethnographic journal “Zhivaya starina” (1890), the project of the of the ethnographic department of the Russian Museum (1899). Lamansky's statements on ethnography as fatherland studies or ethnology are presented, revealing his understanding of ethnographic science. Secondly, this is a historiosophical interpretation of the Oriental Question, considering it as an episode of interaction between two civilisations: the Greco-Slavic and the Romano-Germanic. The incompleteness of the “Historical Letters” is pointed out, which is reflected in the gaps in their publication.

From Bitter Enemies to Political Partners: Shifting Viewpoints of Slovenian Clericals and Liberals during World War I

The article examines Slovenian liberal and clerical magazines to analyse the adaptations of the political narratives of the two main Slovenian political parties from the assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 until early in the final stage of World War I in March 1918. Slovenian clericals, who gathered together in the Slovenian People's Party, reacted to the killings in Sarajevo by adopting a strong pro-Habsburg and anti-Serbian position. Their magazines even called for a military invasion of Serbia. In comparison, their primary political competitors on Slovenian soil, the Slovenian liberals congregated in the National Progressive Party and condemned the act of assassination, yet they were critical of the Austrian anti-Serbian policy for having escalated the war. These two Slovenian political parties were also divided on the issue of the future envisioned for the Slovenian nation within South Slavic state formations. The clericals pressed for realization of the trialist idea, which forecast a Croatian–Slovenian state unit within the Habsburg Monarchy with its centre in Zagreb. The liberals, in contrast, dreamed of a larger South Slavic state that would bring all South Slavs together and have its centre in Serbia. The development of the war, chiefly the Entente's foreseeable victory, the threat of implementation of the London Pact, and the fact that Austrian Germans characterized all emancipatory Slovenian political movements as an anti-state element, all worked to force Slovenian clericals to cooperate with their pre-war enemies. The overriding aim was for them to retain their leading position among Slovenians by formally cooperating with the liberal stream, including taking over part of the liberal political strategy, in order to ensure that it was in the best possible position in the South Slavic state at end of the war.

Pan-Slavism of F.I. Tyutchev and F.M. Dostoevsky: Historical and Political Analysis

The ideas of Slavic unity periodically played a significant role in politics. Today, the ideas of pan-Slavism, both political and cultural, are relevant again. The objective of this study is to identify two stable trends of pan-Slavism of the 19th century, “political” and “cultural”, which are reflected in the works of classics of Russian literature: F.I. Tyutchev and F.M. Dostoevsky. The history of socio-political doctrines as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge involves the study of various sources, including fiction. The theoretical basis of this research is a political and textual approach to the study of texts developed at the Department of the History of Socio-Political Doctrines of the Faculty of Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University, as well as methods used in the research of political science fiction. According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that ideologically Tyutchev was close to representatives of “political” pan-Slavism. He believed that the “Germanization” and “Turkification” of the Slavic peoples jeopardized the state interests of Russia and called for actions to liberate, unite and Russify the Slavic countries (the idea of the Slavic Empire). Dostoevsky gravitated towards “cultural” pan-Slavism. He did not deny the very possibility of such a union, but believed that first it was necessary to raise the level of civic culture, for Dostoevsky the future of the “Slavic cause” was determined by the Orthodox-Messianic idea. If Russia aims to build allied relations with Slavic countries, it will have to formulate an attractive idea that could also contribute to the spiritual unification of Slavs and other peoples.

The Eastern Question in the Views of the Russian Liberals of the Early 20th Century

The study deals with the attitude of Russian liberals of the early 20th century to the Eastern question, which occupied a special place in international politics and whose aggravation became one of the factors leading to the World War I. Various political forces in Russia developed their own variants of its solution, realizing that the fate not only of the country, but of the whole world largely depended on the projects they proposed. The analysis of the liberals’ ambiguous perception of the Russian government’s actions in the Balkans, their attitude to the South Slavs, to the problem of the Black Sea Straits, and to the confrontation between the great powers united in alliances, i.e. all aspects of the Eastern question, will allow us to reconstruct and understand the liberals’ understanding of the connection between foreign policy and Russia’s internal development, national interests, and ideological values. Looking at the views of the liberals of the early 20th century on the Eastern question reveals not only the peculiarities of its perception by the ruling elite and representatives of the legal opposition, but also the roots of the growing alienation of the country’s elite from the people. It was this alienation, which intensified during the war years and manifested itself, among other things, in the different perceptions of the importance of the Eastern question by the authorities, the liberals, and the people, that led to the fall of the first liberal Provisional Government in the spring of 1917. As a result, the people tired of the war and unable to understand the meaning of Russia’s struggle for foreign lands, came to support the Bolsheviks, who exposed the “imperialist plans” of the Provisional Government and advocated peace without annexations and contributions. The paper touches upon the problem of the liberals’ attitude not only to the government’s foreign policy, but also to Russian statehood, the conceptual reasons for their transition from a restrained peace-loving position and the desire to prevent war to its unconditional support. The authors identify the ideological and foreign policy factors that influenced this liberal transit. The main attention is paid to the understanding of representatives of various liberal movements of the Eastern question, which, without exaggeration, took a central place not only in their foreign policy program, but also in the project of internal transformations, which envisaged the creation of Great Russia as a result of its solution. The study identifies and analyzes the innovations introduced by the liberals in the interpretation of the Eastern question under the influence not only of the changing international situation, political and economic modernization of Russia, which was becoming a “Duma monarchy,” but also of the development of the ideology itself; the peculiarities of its perception by representatives of various liberal currents in the country are examined.

Йойги в контексте свадебной обрядности северных карелов: семантика и особенности функционирования

The article deals with the joiks as a genre of North Karelian folklore, which in traditional culture marks the transitional, crisis situations in the life- and calendar cycles and is an element of the wedding ritual’s musical code. In terms of the poetic text content, the joiks bear a typological similarity to the reprobating (korilnye) songs from the folk music of Slavic peoples. The lack of research on the semantics and functions of the joiks in the context of wedding rituals, as well as on the correspondence between the joik poetic texts and ritual tunes makes this study relevant. The task for this article is to identify the ritual and non-ritual functions of the joik musical and poetic texts based on ethnographic data and the study of the etymology and the semantic field of the term’s meanings. Another aspect examined in the article is that of the features of functioning of the joiks when they are performed with wedding song tunes. The material for the study was provided by a set of published and archival texts and audio records made by folklorists and musicologists predominantly in the mid-20th century.

Номінація хліба в українських центральноподільських говірках: етнолінгвістичний контекст

The article considers the names of bread, fixed in 35 settlements of Vinnytsia and Khmelnytsky regions of Ukraine – the Central Podolia dialects. Information of a nominative and ethnolinguistic character about the traditional terminology of bread from Podolia has been introduced into the information space. Most fixed names of bread have an open internal form, they have been classified according to the principle of nomination, in particular: 1) nomination by the appearance of bread; 2) nomination by the function of bread; 3) nomination by holiday affiliation; 4) nomination by the way of baking bread. The dialect text material is rich in beliefs and superstitions related to baking, consumption and the use of bread in family, calendar rituals of the Podolians. The sacralization and symbolization of bread reflects the ancient mythological ideas of the Podolians, more broadly – all Ukrainians, which unites us with the Slavic world, and therefore can subsequently become a reliable source for a deeper study of Ukrainian‑Slavic linguistic, ethnolinguistic, ethnocultural ties.

MISSION OF THE THESSALONIKI BROTHERS AS THE EXAMPLE OF THE INCULTURATION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE TEACHING OF JOHN PAUL II

The purpose of the article is to show the teaching of St. John Paul II on the Thessaloniki Brothers and their missionary ministry in the dimension of faith inculturation. Constantine (826–869) and Michael (c. 815–885), i.e. Saints Cyril and Methodius – were brothers who came from Thessaloniki, Greece, and are figures who still continue to arouse a great interest because of their contribution to the evangelization of some Slavic people and their cultural development through the creation of the alphabet, a written language in which they were able to learn about the Christian faith and the heritage of ancient Greece and Byzantium. The two Brothers are revered by both Orthodox Christians and Catholics because of their missionary ministry. It was carried out in unity with both the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which they belonged to, and Rome, as the popes gave their blessing and support to their ministry and the methods they used to preach the Gospel to the Slavs. Saint John Paul II, from the beginning of his pontificate, referred to the figures of Cyril and Methodius, emphasizing their ability to adapt their mission work to the mentality of the Slavs. He also declared them co-patrons of Europe that should breathe with „two lungs” – the western and eastern.The article is divided into three parts. In the first part, we learn about the historical background of their missionary expeditions. The second part presents the development of Cyrillo-Methodian thought in the teaching of John Paul II. The final part includes the Slavic Pope’s statements on the merits of the Holy Brothers for the spread of the Gospel among the Slavs and for the development of their culture.

GREAT MUSICAL FORMS DEDICATED TO SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS

This article takes a closer look at the great musical forms dedicated to Saints Cyril and Methodius. These are mainly liturgical compositions related to the worship of the two saints. This group includes a medieval Mass propria (e.g. Parchment Missal no. 212 of the Cracow Chapter) and the Baroque-Classical Mass by Michael Haydn (1758). In the 19th century, the repertoire was expanded to include cantatas (Křížkovsky, Surzyński, Dinew) and hymns (Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Pipkov), which are linked to the process of national awakening of Czechs, Slovaks, Croats and Bulgarians. The 19th and 20th centuries also saw the creation of numerous arrangements of the Ordinarium Missae in Glagolitic. These include Leoš Janáček’s monumental “Glagolská mše” (1926) and related works by Czech and Croatian composers (Říchovski, Foerster, Kožušníček, Douša, Janda, Kozinović, Novak, Sokol, Hanuš, Láník). This collection is enriched by stage works: the opera of Zhivka Klinkova (1981/2021) and oratorios and cantatas from the 20th and 21st centuries (Dinew, Širola, Krška, Andrašovan, Tučapský, Procházka, Krák). These works are based on Glagolitic liturgical tests and poetry and prose related to the upsurge of national thought in the 19th century. They show Sts Cyril and Methodius not only as preachers of the Gospel and missionaries to the Slavic peoples but also as teachers of culture, dialogue and reconciliation, and above all, as founders of the foundations of Slavic national identity. The article presented here contributes to the current theological reflection in the field of aspectual hagiology.