The premise of the feasibility of conducting the analysis is the importance of studying the work of Ludmila Starytska-Chernyakhivska, who devoted attention to the history of Ukraine, to the times of Ruin and the figure of Hetman Petro Doroshenko. The relevance of the study is due to the desire to determine the specifics of the interpretation of the historical figure through the prism of the worldview of the writer and to reveal the influence of this interpretation on the general perception of the history of Ukraine. The purpose of the paper is the analysis and interpretation of the historical drama “Hetman Petro Doroshenko” by Lyudmila Starytska-Chernyakhivska. The article defines the peculiarities of the author’s interpretation of the image of the hetman, his place in the history of Ukraine. The author’s appeal to the historical drama genre is substantiated as the most effective for presenting the complex and ambiguous image of Hetman Doroshenko and other historical figures. All characters are presented in the light of the author’s artistic vision. Through them, Lyudmila Starytska-Chernyakhivska makes sense of the problem of Ukrainian statehood through the worldview and behavior of people, figures of historical scale. The article presents historical facts related to the hetman’s life and activities, emphasizing the synthesis of the real and artistic primal elements in the work. Emphasis is placed on the presence of the author’s conjecture in the text. The writer thinks about the meaning of human existence in history, about the mission and purpose of man through the image of Petro Doroshenko as a person with a high historical purpose and Ivan Samoilovych as an average, self-interested personality. The article is based on a historicalliterary approach, which turns out to be the application of a general scientific approach (synthesis and generalization); systematic descriptive, textological and philological methods. The analysis of the work presents us with the statement that the highest self-realization of an individual, his high historical one, is the struggle for his native land. This idea is realized through the image of Petro Doroshenko. The drama affirms the thesis about the future revival of Ukraine, and the Ruin is projected on the contemporary life of the writer.
Keywords: Ukrainian literature, Lyudmyla Starytska-Chernyakhivska, historical drama, Petro Doroshenko, artistic interpretation, synthesis, historical character.
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