FROM THE BANKS OF THE NEVA TO THE BLACK SEA COAST: A JOURNEY OF THE PETERSBURG EDITION OF „VARNAK” THROUGH ODESA BOOK COLLECTIONS
Journal Title: Вісник Одеського національного університету. Бібліотекознавство, бібліографознавство, книгознавство - Year 2014, Vol 19, Issue 2
Abstract
A copy of Varnak by Taras Shevchenko from the stacks of Scientific Library of the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University attracted our attention because of its interesting provenance. The cover of the book contains an authograph «Разуменко» (Razumenko), inscriptions: «Ялинка дарує напам’ять Єромонах Микита 30/ХІІ-918» (New Year's party presenting as a souvenir of the occasion celibate priest Mykyta 30/ХІІ-918) and «7.V.27 Від Б. Волянського Gratis» (7.V.27 From B. Volianskyi Gratis) as well as two stamps «Одеська українська національна книгозбірня» (the Odesa Ukrainian National Llibrary) and «Українська державна бібліотека ім. Т. Шевченка» (the Ukrainian T. Shevchenko State Library). The main purpose of the article is to sketch the history of the copy, which had been a part of different private book collections and municipal libraries of Odessa. Author used comparative and historical methods and followed principles of source criticism. The book published in 1911 in St. Petersburg was the part of stacks of the Odesa Ukrainian National Library founded in the end of 1917 by a cultural figure celibate priest Mykyta. The Library fulfilled the role of one of the main Ukrainian cultural centers in Odesa which gathered schoolchildren, Ukrainian youth, workers, cultural figures as well as statemen. Father Mykyta obviously presented the copy of Varnak to a member of Komarov-Volianskyi family on the New Year’s party in 1918. Mykhailo Komarov’s grandson Bohdan Volianskyi was a famous pedagogue and zoologist, researcher of fauna of vertebrates of the Black Sea coastal zone. His short life was cut in 1937 in five days after his arrest. Ten years before he presented the denoted book to Ukrainian T. Shevchenko Library founded in Odesa in 1920. After integration of its stacks with Odesa State Library and later foundation of Scientific Library of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University the copy of Varnak became a part of the collection of university Shevchenkiana. Finding results may be useful for historians studying cultural life in Odesa of early 20th century, for specialists on history of Ukrainian literature interested in the history of publishing of works by T. Shevchenko and in information about commemorative celebrations dedicated to the anniversary of his death, for specialists in librarian studies searching for facts about Odessa libraries and book collections in early 20th century. Stamps, autographs, inscriptions allow to learn new facts about known things (i.e. an existence of the separate department of the Odesa Ukrainian National Library on 20, Hradonachalnytska St.). The perspective of studying of Ukrainian book heritage of 1798-1923 is connected with further work with denoted complex of editions as well as with studies of activity of publishers, bibliophils, profice societies and libraries, especially those in Odesa, that had been working in the beginning of the 20th century.
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O. L. Liashenko
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