Romantsova N. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi’s scientific activites in Ukrainian historiography.

The dissertation presents comprehensive historiographical analysis of creative, archaeographical, science-facilitating, publishing, pedagogical and journalistic activities carried out by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, a prominent representative of Ukrainian science and statesman of the late 19th-the early 20th century in various periods of his life. It is proved that historiographical research practices applied by Hrushevskyi experts to the scientist’s scientific activities are an important trend of Ukrainian humanitaristics. They embrace the Caucasian period in the formation of his intellectual biography and the years of his learning at the history and philology department of Kyiv St. Volodymyr University when his scientific views were being formed as well as Lviv and Lviv/Kyiv periods of the late 19th-the early 20th century which were distinguished by his work at Lviv University, scientific development of Ukraine’s national history, creation of Lviv Historical School, organizational and publishing activities at T. Shevchenko Scientific Society and at the Ukrainian Scientific Society, which was combined with active journalistic activity. Attention is paid to the fact that Hrushevskyi experts also pay attention to the Russian exile at the time of World War I as well as to the combination of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi’s scientific, political and publicist activities in the stormy years of the Ukrainian Revolution at the time of the fight for renovation of Ukraine’s nationhood, to his work at Ukrainian Sociological Institute at the time of his emigration and at All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the last years of his life when the scientist exerted efforts for the sake of scientific, organizational and publishing work, overcoming the counteraction exercised by the Bolshevik power and academic bureaucracy. It is emphasized that Ukrainian scientists analyze Mykhailo Hrushevskyi’s role in founding Scientific Research Chair of History of Ukraine at All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences from different methodological positions. Hrushevskyi experts emphasize the scientist’s publishing work in “The Notes of T. Shevchenko Scientific Society”, “Literary and Scientific Reporter”, the Journal “Ukraine” of various periods and his participation in the activities carried out by Kiev Historical School. The author has defined the Ukrainian scientists’ reflection in terms of various aspects of Hrushevskyi’s multifaceted scientific legacy, which has revealed his titanic working capacity and the scientist’s influence on all the spheres of Ukrainian scientific life. It is defined that in his multiple works, he formulated and was developing the brand new concept of Ukrainian national history as well as the national narrative. He was one of the first ones in Ukrainian historiography to develop the generalizing overview of the world literature and history of Ukrainian literature, combing history and sociology. Temporal quantitative research of a great number of publications concerned with M. Hrushevsky’s scientific activities is carried out. Using the quantitative methods, the general dynamics of historiographical studios concerned with M. Hrushevsky’s scientific activities as well as the peculiarities of various periods in development of Hrushevsky studies and the trends thereof are defined. It is proved that since the late 19th until the early 21st century Ukrainian historiography has preserved the steady scientific interest in the highlight of multifaceted activities carried out by M. Hrushevsky as a scientist as well as a representative of Ukrainian national historiography and science facilitator who implemented the innovative approaches of European scientists of his time in the Ukrainian intellectual field.