Oleksandr Shulhyn’s Letters to Myron Korduba (1925–1929)

Abstract

The article presents a brief overview of nineteen letters of public and political activist, historian Oleksandr Shulhyn to historian, professor Myron Korduba. The documents describe the life and activities of the Ukrainian scholars outside Ukraine, provide information about their relationship, and reflect their cooperation during the four-year period (1925–1929). Oleksandr Shulhyn mainly wrote about his creative plans, his health condition, works and publications abroad and in Lviv, his public activity and also about the political situation in Ukraine during that period. The correspondence proves that cooperation of these Ukrainian scholars of various historical schools was friendly and creative. The letters are kept in the Manuscript Department of Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine.