Khronenko I. Social and political views and scientific heritage M. I. Gulak: historical-cultural analysis

The dissertation is systematically offers, through a wide range of published and archival sources, studied scholarly works of M.I. Gulak. He created the politi-cal programs documents, which gave us the opportunity to analyze the socio-political and scientific views of the scientist. For the first time is a systematic ap-proach to studying the sources and circumstances that shaped the NI Gulak as a po-litical figure - the head of the first political organizations in Ukraine - Kirilo-Methodius Society. The thesis argues that in the face of N.I. Gulak Ukraine and the Caucasus in XIX century. had the scientists and artists of encyclopedic knowledge, professional orientalist, a prominent expert on Slavic Studies, history, literature, Archeography, linguistics, mathematics, science, pedagogy, linguistics, academic, and ruled by many ancient and modern languages of the peoples of the world.