Epistolary Heritage of M.Obidnyi in the Time of Emigration

Abstract

The purpose of the article is an analysis of complex of unpublished business and personal correspondence of M.Obidnyi from Praha Collection and other archival funds of Ukraine and the reconstruction of circle of communication of figures of the Ukrainian interwar emigration in Polish and Czechoslovakia on the materials of his epistolary heritage. The research methodology. The applied in the article method of simulation of intelligent networks gave a possibility to trace numerous circuits of work and friendly communications of M.Obidnyi, to understand motivation of his cultural and intellectual labour. Conclusions. It has been determined that a wide variety of correspondence of M.Obidnyi is occasioned by his peculiar life activity in the professional and literature fields. The analysis of a wide spectrum of unpublished business and personal correspondence of state and cultural figure discloses first and foremost his multiple personality, allows determining human qualities and life values. The epistolary heritage of the master defines the circle of figures of the Ukrainian cultural interwar emigration in Tarnów and Praha. It has been emphasized the several leading topical units of the epistolary heritage of the master: business correspondence of Tarnów and Praha periods, connected with monument protective activity; communication of the members of literary and artistic society “Sontsesvit”; correspondence of M.Obidnyi with family of V.Samiilenko.