This article discussed „tissue“ spatial perception of the Polish-Lithuanian State, established in the Ukrainian academic historiography mid XIX–early XX centuries, including the so-called „compression“ this space to the points where the fateful event for the Ukrainians and where „spatial behavior“ Rzeczpospolita these events contributed to, or, conversely, prevented the (of course, in the assessment of Ukrainian historians).
In the later works of Ukrainian historians (to date inclusive!) can be found echoes of almost all shades of cultural and geographical image of the Polish-Lithuanian state: romantic legacy of Nicholay Kostomarov, the first description of the past in a positivist vein, Vladimir Antonovich and, finally, academic „delimitation“ Ukrainian history as a national project in the works of Michail Hrushevskiy. However, they are intertwined so whimsically, and at different times due to the complex mixing of „language sources“, „language historiography Fathers“ and the „language of ideology“, that it would require special analysis. The only that unites them – is that the semantics of spaces „Poland“ and „Lithuania“ least cares reality. In the future, the Ukrainian „geographical identity“ surrounding areas are seen merely as a decoration – „moving backstage stories“, which help to understand and describe themselves.
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