H.Galagan’s Integration Project of the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

The purpose of the publication is to introduce into scientific circulation and analyze the monument of public opinion of 1857, which belongs to the pen of one of the most influential public figures of that time H.Galagan.

The methodological framework of the presented text is the approaches of the segment of intellectual history, which aims to identify the biography of significant social and individual ideas, their genesis, dissemination and impact on the public environment in a broad social and cultural context.

Scientific novelty is determined by an exceptional place in the history of Ukrainian public opinion of the author of the text, which is first introduced into scientific circulation. The monument is a draft program of reforms addressed to the government, aimed at gradually resolving the issue of forming a national territory through the administrative consolidation of ethnic Ukrainian regions. H.Galagan’s project clearly testifies to the intense search of the Ukrainian elite for new, ethnic areas of their homeland, its use of the potential of state power, as well as a new stage in understanding the role and place of the Polish question in creating a modern national identity.

The publication allows to significantly expand the idea of various and competitive design options and intellectual strategies for creating a Ukrainian modern project in the mid-nineteenth century. The polyphonic text of H.Galagan’s proposals can be placed in broad research contexts – from the creation of an intellectual biography of the author to the study of problems of interaction, mutual influence, coexistence in Ukrainian lands of various national projects, as well as how to represent about the organization of space, territories influence and reflect the process of formation of national self-consciousness and setting of national programs.