Літературно-документальна версія «волинської трагедії» 1789 року

Abstract

розвідці на літературознавчому рівні аналізується малознана визначна пам’ятка національного письменства XVIII ст. – документально-публіцистична повість Теодосія Бродовича «Зображення насильства... Записки про події на Волині та Поділлі в 1789 році», у якій переконливо описана агонія польських колонізаторів на Волині в 1789 році, котрі влаштували вбивство сотень безневинних українців, наклепницьки звинувачених у підготовці повстання протии них. The article at the literary level examines an almost unknown very important work in the national literature of the 18th century – Theodosius Brodovich’s documentary-publicistic story «The Image of Violence ... Notes on the Volyn and Podolia Events in 1789», when the Polish nobility provoked the killing of hundreds of innocent Ukrainians who were falsely accused in preparing the uprising against the occupation regime. Koliivshchyna passed to the whole world, witnessing «the deep crisis in the political life of the Commonwealth, its agony, the inability and unwillingness of the ruling circles of Warsaw to resolve vital issues of ethnic and confessional character for many decades». The proliferation of peasant uprisings after the Koliivshchyna in Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Turkey, Zaporizhia, the further Haidamak movement in Ukraine, the Carpathian Opryshchivstvo, the first division of Poland in 1772 between the Russian, Austrian and Prussian monarchies did not affect selfishly arbitrary self- destruction in this state. Noting the uniqueness of the work in the history of national writing, we must remember the conclusion of our scholar: Bobrovich’s depiction of a nobleman-barbarous and kata Ukrainian peasant corresponds to historical truth. Completely consonant with the writer’s view and the conclusion of another researcher: Poland was destroyed by Rome and the Jesuits. The assertion of M. Hrushevsky that the basis of the Volyn tragedy lies the fear of the nobility before the Haidamak, who also gave birth to this «half brother» has a realistic ground, because, conscious of its destructive activity, it tried to overthrow this historic blame from itself on Ukrainians, designing for the future the image of our people as an enemy and destroyer of their state, with which we must behave aggressively and brutally.