Dzyra I. The Cossack chronicles of 30–80-s years of the XVIII c. as historical sourse and monuments of Ukrainian historiography

The thesis on the wide range of source materials, in particular archives, and special scientific literature studies subjects, chronology, genres and methodological evolution of Ukrainian historical-literary works of 30–80 years of the XVIII c. The performed textual analysis allowed to shed light on the number of events of native history, first of all XVII-XVIII cc., clear the important questions of the origin and authorship of some monuments of Ukrainian historiography, to make significant steps on the way of the future qualitative publication of some worcs. The author realizes the special investigation of Cossack chronicles as monuments of historical thoug+ht, considers a specificity of ideology of chroniclers, their political positions and literary tastes, methods of reproduction of important historical problems. Special attention is given to characteristic of the influence of Cossack chroniclers on the development of national historiography of the end of XVIII – the first half of the XIX century.