A CULTURAL REVIEW OF SOURCES TO THE TOPIC OF THE TRADITION OF THE «CHERNIHIVSIVERSKYI PRINCIPALITY»

Abstract

The relevance of the mentioned problem lies in the fact that, for the first time in cultural science, the dynamic of the sequence of formation of Ukrainian territorial and demographic traditions of the population of the Chernihiv-Siver region is analyzed. The group of sciences adjacent to cultural studies is represented by historical and archaeological sources, including
materials of congresses, conferences for jubilee dates, and historical events. They compiled the culturological knowledge of the modern reconstruction of the historiographical heritage to the specified problem of the historiography of the Chernihiv-Siver principality and region, an ethnographic medieval region. Their source base was and remains fundamental for the
modern reconstruction of the specified problem, among them prominent historians, art critics, archaeologists, researchers of antiquity, namely: D. Bantysh-Kamenskyi, M. Berezhkov, Kh. Vovk, M. Hrushevskyi, D. Doroshenko, M. Kostomarov, H. Lukomskyi, M. Makarenko, M. Markevych, M. Markov, Ya. Markovych, H. Myloradovych, I. Morhilevskyi, M. Petrov,
O. Rusov, D. Samokvasov, P. Smolichev, O. Shafonskyi ect.
The article envisages the use of methods: analytical for the study of the reconstruction of the historical and cultural process of the formation of the Ukrainian nation on the basis of original traditions that identify the nation and statehood; structural-functional to distinguish national traditions that identify the territorial-state system, traditions of the succession
of dynastic-princely rule and folk-customary law, original traditions of folk-household, industrial, decorative-applied culture and art, linguistically in sacred and original, folklore and ethnographic heritage.
The scientific novelty is that for the first time in Ukrainian cultural science, an attempt will be made to distinguish the knowledge of public history and culture: from the ancient tribes of the Volyn-Roman culture to the Ukrainian population of Chernihiv-Siver region, which together formed the Ukrainian nation and the statehood of Kyivan Rus. They laid common foundations for the life and livelihood of local tribes, the development of territories, agriculture, public organization, customary law, financial and trade relations, diplomacy, spiritual, cultural and artistic life.