PARTICIPATION OF UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS IN EDITION OF COLLECTION OF ARTICLES IN HONOUR OF O. I. SOBOLEVSKYI (BASED ON EPISTOLARY MATERIALS)

Article is devoted to reconstruction of history of the edition of the collection of articles in honour of the outstanding Russian philologist-Slavist, the linguist, the palaeographer, the specialist in folklore, the academician of the St. Petersburg academy of Sciences Оleksii Ivanovich Sobolevskyi (1857–1929). The relevance of article is defi ned by the fact that the collection of articles as the academic publication has been published ninety years ago in 1928 and became big achievement in the sphere of Slavic philology and philological science. A source of a research is correspondence of the Ukrainian and Russian philologist, academician All-Ukrainian and St. Petersburg Academies of Sciences of V. М. Peretts with Ukrainian and foreign philologists and Slavists which is kept in personal fund of the Ukrainian literary critic S. I. Maslov at the Institute of Manuscript of the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. On the basis of the analysis of epistolary heritage of V. M. Peretts’s the role in preparation of the collection of articles as initiator and editor of the edition is highlighted. Special attention is paid to participation in the edition of the collection of articles by the Ukrainian scientists, including V. N. Peretts’s pupils on the Seminar of the Russian philology in Kyiv such as S. I. Maslov, M. K. Gudziya, K. O. Koperzhinsky, I. I. Ogiyenko, Ye. A. Rikhlik, et al. Participation in the edition of the Ukrainian philologists and historians who lived in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa is highlited. Participation in the edition of the collection of articles in honour of A. I. Sobolevskyi, by the European scientists and the Ukrainian philologists who were in emigration in Poland and Czechoslovakia is displayed.