Popelnytska Olena

Kyiv scientist Oleksii Simzen-Sychevsky (1880-1942): Based on materials of the scientific archive of the National museum of the history of Ukraine

Section: BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES

Abstract: The aim of the article is to study the biography of the famous historian Oleksii Mykhailovych Simzen-Sychevsky (1880-1942) – an employee of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, one of the authors of the publication “Kyiv. Guidebook” (1930), author of a number of scientific and popular science investigationson various issues of Ukrainian history, Kyiv studies and studies of Shevchenko’s personality. His immediate entourage included such well-known scientists asM. Hrushevsky, F. Ernst, V. Miyakivsky, V. Shcherbyna, O. Novitsky, V. Lyaskoronsky, V. Krychevsky, O. Andriyashev, M. Makarenko, I. Morgilevsky, V. Bazylevych, P. Kurinny. Most of the works of O. Simzen-Sychevsky have not yetlost their theoretical and factual relevance. The research methodology is the principle of scientificity, historicism, objectivity, methods of analysis, classification, generalization, historical-genetic and historical-typological. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the reconstruction of O. Simzen-Sychevsky’s biography, based on written sources, and the introduction into scientific circulation of fourepistolary sources (letters of O. Simzen-Sychevsky), which are stored in the Scientific Archive of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine.

Keywords: National Museum of the History of Ukraine, archives, O. Simzen-Sychevsky, Kyiv’s Studies, Studies of Shevchenko’s person.

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• Popelnytska Olena (National Museum of the History of Ukraine, Ukraine, Kyiv, [email protected]) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2719-2503

Cite:
Popelnytska Olena (2021). Kyiv scientist Oleksii Simzen-Sychevsky (1880-1942): Based on materials of the scientific archive of the National museum of the history of Ukraine . Biographistica Ukrainica, (22) 166-179. (In Ukrainan). https://doi.org/10.15407/ub.22.166

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