Nobility’s Every Day Life of the Right-Bank Ukraine in Contemporary Ukrainian Historiography

Abstract

The article gives a brief description of a separate field of historical science – the history of everyday life, today there are more and more works devoted to this field of history in general and the daily life of the nobility of the Right-Bank Ukraine in particular. The main scientific works related to the everyday life of the nobility of the Right-Bank Ukraine from the January Uprising of 1863 to the revolution of 1917, when the nobility as a state ceased to exist, were analyzed.

There is no comprehensive study that would deal with the specified problem, but there are attempts to cover as many spheres of life of the nobility of the Right-Bank Ukraine as possible. Modern scientists touch on the issue of the conceptual apparatus and methodology of the history of everyday life, narrower studies concern Polish land ownership in Right-Bank Ukraine, socio-economic development of landlord farms, Ukrainian-Polish-Russian antagonisms in the land issue, the participation of the nobility in social and political life, involvement in the cultural environment of the city and villages, active participation in educational and charitable activities.

Among the Ukrainian scientists who have been engaged for many years in the history of the nobility, the issue of Polish land ownership, relations between landlords and peasants, etc., we should highlight: N. Temirova, V. Shandra, B. Gud, I. Kryvosheya, Y. Polishchuk, N. Shcherbak and others.

Such ramifications encourage scientists to turn to the mentioned issues more and more often in order to better understand the insufficiently elucidated facts everyday life of the nobility of the Right-Bank Ukraine in the second half of the 19^th - at the beginning of the 20^th centuries. with the involvement of the research source base.