MEMOIRS OF FORMER MOSCOPHILE OSYP MARKOV JR. IN EMIGRATION: “MY HEART AND SOUL ARE CONNECTED TO UKRAINE”

Abstract

The article, which is a preface to the publication of the autobiographical memoirs of Osyp Osypovych Markov (1890–1976), a Slavist, jurist and ethnographer, born in Lviv, the general features of the Ukrainian national movement in Galicia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, reveals their influence on formation and development of the actor’s worldview. In his youth, O. Markov Jr. was closely associated with the Moscophile environment; in particular, his father Osyp and uncle Dmytro Markov were among the leaders of Galician Moscophilism (Russophilism) – a current that advocated the historical, linguistic and cultural unity of the region with the pan-Russian space on in the east, openly focused on the Russian language and culture. O. Markov Jr. was brought up in the family circle and educated in the Moscophile spirit, had connections with pro-Russian figures at the beginning of his public activities. However, finding himself in exile in Czechoslovakia after the defeat of the Ukrainian revolution, he gradually switched to Ukrainian national positions, felt his kinship with Ukraine “with his heart and soul”. He lived the last years of his life in Bratislava, where he is buried. The article gives an idea of the environment and conditions in which the evolution of O. Markov’s ideological views from Moscophilism to Ukrainophilism took place. The appendix contains his autobiography, which was first published by the Ukrainian researcher from Pryashev Mykola Mushinka in a Slovak

idea of the complexity and contradictions of the process of forming a modern national self-awareness in Western Ukrainian lands in the 19th – 20th centuries, is kept in the manuscripts department of the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Keywords: Osyp Osypovych Markov, autobiography, Moscophile, scientist and public figure, national self-identification, Galicia, Slovakia.

scientific collection (1992), but it is not well known in Ukraine. A typescript copy of O. Markov’s autobiographical memoirs, which give an