Реалicтична картина руйнацïï польсько-украïнськоï пограничноï спiльноти у драмi Леонарда Совiнського На Украгïнi
A realistic vision of split of the Polish-Ukrainian community in L. Sowinski’s play „Na Ukrainie"

Summary/Abstract: The figure of Leonard Sowinski (1831-1887) - poet, novelist and dramatist from the second half of the 19th century - oscillates in between social states, national cultures and literary periods. Born in the house of Polish nobleman and Ukrainian peasant-woman, living in the Ukraine studying at the University in Kiev, he combined two cultural environments. He started his artistic career in times when romantical ideals were still intense, but at the same time the voices of the new generation were getting louder and louder. Such a characteristical duality of outlook has helped Sowinski in creating a play Na Ukrainie (1873), in which he has shown all social stratum of the Ukraine (baronage, young democratical Polish nobles, Ukrainian intellectuals, the representatives of the Russian authorities) and their participation in January uprising in the Ukraine. The above-mentioned play is a testimony of a new stage in evolution of social and national relations on the former Polish borderland. It visualizes the annihilation of patriarchal noble order, a split of the imaginary idyllic Polish-Ukrainian community created by the first Polish romanticists of the „Ukrainian school”, a change of the Polish national spirit formation. It also shows the germs of the Ukrainian nation, which was built on their own land by means of other dominant nations. The created vision is both tragic and realistic.

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