Kagamlyk S. The cultural and educational activity of Kyivan-Caves Monastery in the second half of XVII-XVIII century.

The objects are the monks of the Kyivan -Caves Monastery, former students of the Kyivan-Mohyla academy as well as the Kyivan-Caves printing house and its books. The aim is to create the complete picture of cultural and educational activity of the Kyivan-Caves Monastery in the second half of XVII-XVIII century and to determine its fundamental directions. The methods are comparative, analytic and statystic. The problems, dealing with place of Kyivan-Caves Monastery in the system of clerical and state relations in the Ukraine was regarded. The role of the caves monks in stregthening of education on the ukrainian lands, in the Moscow state and european countries was appreciated. The specialities of the editional activity of the Kyivan-Caves printing house as well as an its place in process of the book-exchange of ukrainian lands were researched. The influence of the caves books on the culture of other nations was analysed.