Короткий В. А. - На життєвому і світоглядному роздоріжжі: Варшавський університет у житті Павла Попова (за матеріалами особового фонду) , Ульяновський В. І. (2025)

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Korotkyi Viktor, Ulianovskyi Vasyl

At crossroads of life and worldview: Warsaw University in life of Pavlo Popov (based on materials from personal fond)

Section: Studies in Spesial Historical Disciplines

Abstract: Goal of the work. Based on materials from the personal fond of Pavlo Popov, mainly his diaries, to investigate one of the periods of the life of a scientist and teacher, who was significant for the Soviet era, which covered the time of his studies at the University of Warsaw. We tried to see and understand this process not only through the prism of our hero’s views, but also in the broader context of the history of the University of Warsaw and social movements of the Russian Empire. This approach allowed us to clarify some of the information published in the diary entries, but which turned out to be unreliable. Research methodology. To recreate the Warsaw period of Pavlo Popov’s life, theoretical principles and the methodology of modern biographical studies were used. Historical-comparative and deductive research methods were also used. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the entire complex of materials from the personal fond of Pavlo Popov, which is stored in the Institute of Manuscript of the V.I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine (fond 285, 7, 795 items of the collection), about the founder’s studies at the University of Warsaw, has been analyzed. The course of the student’s life in Warsaw and beyond has been partially reconstructed. Special attention is paid to the hero’s ideological searches, which are most characteristically manifested during the final choice of the faculty of study. The choice of the historical and philological faculty, rather than the law faculty, determined the further life path of Popov the scientist. Conclusions. Currently, there is no full-fledged scientific biography of Pavlo Popov, although the first steps in this direction, thanks to the published materials for his biography, have been made. The period of Popov’s studies at the Faculty of History and Philology of the University of Warsaw for a long time determined the life priorities and main areas of scientific interests of the humanities scholar. St. Volodymyr’s University will expand the spectrum and make some adjustments to his scientific interests, but will not change them fundamentally.

Keywords: Pavlo Popov, biographical studies, Warsaw University, history of higher education, history of Ukraine.


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Korotkyi Viktor, Ulianovskyi Vasyl. (2025). At crossroads of life and worldview: Warsaw University in life of Pavlo Popov (based on materials from personal fond). Manuscript and book heritage of Ukraine, (1) 85-120 . https://doi.org/10.15407/rksu.36.085

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