Yurii Shevelov’s Letters to Omeljan Pritsak

Abstract

The article deals with the correspondence of the world famous Slavic Professor of Columbia University and President of Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences (UVAN) Yurii Shevelov with the Turkologist, Ukrainianist, founder and President of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) and one of the initiators of the International Association of Ukrainianists Omelian Pritsak. This correspondence includes 22 letters and it is preserved in the Library of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In the Introduction the compilers provide general characteristic of the archive and this correspondence. The Appendix contains a letter of Omelian Pritsak addressed to famous philanthropists Omelian and Tetiana Antonovych, initiators of the private charitable foundation that annually awards prizes to the most outstanding litterateurs, scholars and public figures.