Kuzmenko T. The Spiritual Culture of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen in the Process of the Nathional Cultural Revival

In the investigation the author examines the spiritual culture of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen which was formed in the process of the Nathional Ukrainian revival of the Nation and its political system in the end of XIX - the beginning of XX centuries. At that time Ukraine belonged to the Russian and Austria-Hungarian Empire and the Sich Riflemen were the leading strength of the Nation which revived and kept cossackes' traditions, thus, creating the new state relations and cultural values as a basis of the nation and state. The Sichovi Striltsi expressed their true love to their Motherland through the means of poems, songs, ideas and other signs of spiritual rivaval. The main methods and means of state formation were educational, informative, propaganda and literary-publicistic activities which resulted in organization of the national courses on ethnography, history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian language. The "Prosvita" organizanion was formed at that time and some schools with compulsary Ukrainian language were opened.