Polish-Ukrainian Studies

The establishment of the Enlightenment Aesthetics in the Diary of Peter the Apostle

2021, 8, No. 8

Yaroslav Myshanych

0000-0003-0775-5951

DOI

10.31338/2451-2958spu.8.7

Publication date

16.04.2021

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Dziedzina nauk humanistycznych

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filozofia, literaturoznawstwo

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Ukrainian, English, Polish

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Abstract

The diary of Petro Apostol belongs to great samples of documentary prose of the beginning of the 18th century. Th e document indicates an expressive influence of the European ideological and cultural trend of the Enlightenment, which found its reflection in the language, figurative system and problems. The author wrote his diary for more than two years - from May 1725 to August 1727. There are several motifs in the diary, against the background and in the interweaving of which the historical era of Ukraine of that time is visible. First of all, it is told about the family of the Apostols and their life in the Myrgorod regiment. The system of images created by the author is interesting - here his parents, peasants, Cossacks, serfs, Cossacks foremen, Russian nobles, merchants, princes, tsars, foreigners, friends of the author. The author’s attitude to his heroes is characteristic of enlighteners. It is rationalistic, that is, each mentioned person in society performs his function regardless of which class he belongs to. Particular interest in a wide range of problems that the author writes about in his notes - he is interested in family, agriculture, relations between people, legal issues, the problem of serfdom, poverty, personal relations, he talks about books and newspapers, about friends, about his father, about Prince Menshikov and his service, talks about entertainment and leisure, about dances and receptions, talks about clothes and everyday life, about gifts for the family, about his wife, about baptism and the birth of a child. The author does these problems esthetic in his notes, puts them into literary practice.

Keywords:

rationalism,enlightenment,policy,esthetics,context,perspective

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