Ševčenkovo slavianofilstvo: pôvod a kontext
Shevchenko's Slavophilism: Origins and Context

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article comes to the conclusion that Ukrainian Slavophilism, therepresentative of which Shevchenko was, was formed on the basis of Herder’s theoryabout Slavs as the pigeon-like, softy people, Y. Kollar’s and P.-Y. Shafarik’s worksabout Slavic cultural and linguistic revival also in the context of classical RussianSlavophilism of the 1840s and as a distinct alternative to it. Ukrainian Slavophilismwas a Slavophilism of non-historical people for its political rebirth. Ukrainian Slavophilismlike the Polish one proved, that Russian Slavophiles from the very beginningaccented on special Russian Soul and distinction from the West in the 1870s turnedinto Pan-Slavism. M. Pogodin’s letters to S. Uvarov, the Minister of National Educationof that time, prove that M. Pogodin was a main agent of Russian influence in Czech.The paper investigates, what Shevchenko knew about P.-Y. Shafarik, whose papershe read in Russian translation. The Ukrainian poet did not know, that P.-Y. Shafarikwas Slovak, referred to him in the poem Heretic as to Czech-Slav. One of the UkrainianSlavophiles M. Rigelman corresponded with Ludovit Stur, so Shevchenko in theorymight have heard about the Slovak question from him. However, even the works ofSafarik himself did not testify to his slavocentrism. The paper uses method of comparativestudy. The goal of the paper is to show the differences between Ukrainianand Russian Slavophilism of the 1840s and the reason why the Slavic people in the19th century excepted Ukrainians and Poles looking for support in Russia.

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