OLENA PCHILKA'S MEETING WITH MELITON BUCZYNSKI IN VIENNA IN 1872: INTRIGUE AND UNEXPECTED CONSEQUENCES

Abstract

The purpose. The article deals with the circumstances and consequences of the meeting of Olena Pchilka and Meliton Buchynsky in Vienna in 1872, which left a deep impression on the minds of both participants. The attention is focused on the flash of sincere feelings of a young Rusyn Sich member for a married lady from Kyiv and the changes in their inner subjectivity and ideological paradigm that resulted from a week of communication. The research methodology is determined by the peculiarities of the theme, the logic of the analytical process, and is subordinated to the realization of the aim and specific tasks, which requires a systematically complex approach. Therefore, the study uses the heuristic potential of the biographical method and the achievements of psychological schools, the use of techniques of comparative studies and the historical-cultural school. From the arsenal of modern methodology, the emphasis is made on the principles of hermeneutics and narratology.

Results. In the process of scientific research, it was found that, apart from the intimate psychological aspect, this meeting helped to expand and clarify the horizons of Olena Pchilka's national consciousness, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, led to the appearance of symptoms of a mental and worldview crisis of Meliton Buchynsky. In the process of scientific research, it was found that, apart from the intimate psychological aspect, this meeting helped to expand and clarify the horizons of Olena Pchilka's national consciousness, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, led to the appearance of symptoms of a mental and worldview crisis of Meliton Buchynsky. At least, they did not become negative, but rather vice versa: short-term communication with the “charming lady” who, despite some “slave signs” of growing up in the Russian Empire, kept a high spiritual culture and national identity, became a catalyst for spiritual energy and caused the crystallization of his own views and feelings. At the same time, it helped to understand the nature and essence of her brother Mykhailo Drahomanov's secret plans in Halychyna and eventually caused her to break off relations with him.