PUBLICATION ACTIVITY OF S. RUSOVA AS A GUARANTEE OF POPULARIZATION OF PROGRESSIVE IDEAS LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES

For more than 70 years, S. Rusova's creative legacy was kept in special repositories, as she was declared a bourgeois nationalist in the Soviet era. Today, the multifaceted pedagogical and educational activities of teachers of European level are available for study and are the subject of scientific research. In our article, using the method of content analysis, quantitative indicators of publication activity of a famous journalist and public figure are determined, because the number of publications is a very important indicator for the recognition of authors, their contribution to science, any field of creative activity. Analyzed how certain historical realities can affect the work of the author, and the productive activities of this author can affect the general state of public opinion in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. The biobibliographic index «Sofia Rusova – teacher, statesman, teacher», published in 2010 on the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian woman, was chosen as the basis for quantitative calculations. Index created by specialists of DNPB of Ukraine named after V.O. Sukhomlinsky, and is the first biobibliographic publication about S. Rusova in Ukraine. The index contains a list of works and research on the life and multifaceted activities of an outstanding teacher. In order to fully cover the creative work of the scientist, it included bibliographic descriptions of S. Rusova's works and scientific publications devoted to her life, pedagogical and socio-cultural activities, published since the 80s of the XIX century. until 2010, as separate books and articles in scientific collections and periodicals in Ukraine and abroad. Based on the results of calculations, graphs were developed, which indicate the number of publications for each year. The chronological framework of the schedules was established within the framework of the most established periodization of S. Rusova's creative heritage, where four periods in the life of a well-known public figure and publicist are distinguished. Thus, during the first period (end of XIX-1905) 34 publications were published; for the second period (1906–1916) – 136 publications; for the third (1917–1921) – 42 materials; for the fourth period (1922–1940) – 144 publications.