Youth of Mazepa ( Ukrainian: Youth of Mazepi ) is the novel of Mikhail Staritsky , the first book that tells about the young years of the future hetman of Ukraine Ivan Mazepa . It was first published in 1898 in the newspaper Moskovsky Listok [1] , after which it was banned from publication [2] and was first reprinted in 1997 in Russian, Ukrainian and English. The reason for the ban was that the main character of the book is Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa. [3] In 1997, the book was reprinted with a circulation of 10,000 copies.
| Youth of Mazepa | |
|---|---|
| Youth Mazepi | |
 Ivan Mazepa | |
| Author | Mikhail Staritsky |
| Genre | Novel |
| Original published | |
| Series | Historical literature |
| Publisher | Newspaper "Moscow Leaf" in 1898 , Ukrainian Center for Spiritual Culture in 1997 |
| Release | 1898 , reprinted in 1997 |
| Pages | 984 |
| ISBN | 966-7276-00-7 |
| Previous | Bogdan Khmelnitsky , 1887 |
| Next | Bush Defense, 1899 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Critique of the novel
- 3 notes
- 4 See also
- 5 Links
Plot
The time of writing the novel is reported by Mikhail Staritsky himself in his letter to Dmitry Yavornitsky on April 10, 1898:
“Now I’m writing a great novel about Mazepa, the topic is not unsafe for censorship, but I won’t write in the censored relish” [4]
The plot of the book is devoted to the environment in which the worldview of Ivan Mazepa was formed and which predetermined his further actions as a statesman. Staritsky emphasizes that Mazepa’s life in a farm, in a simple Cossack family, where the beauty of nature is in harmony with the beauty of human relations, was later compared by Mazepa with the rotten foundations of the royal court in Poland, where he was sent to study. A separate story describes the relationship of Ivan Mazepa with his first love - the Cossack Galina, who played an important role in the fate of the future hetman.
Ivan Mazepa in Staritsky’s novel is a young intellectual politician, patriotic politician, diplomat and warrior, fighting with his mind, not a saber. Describing the youth of Mazepa, Staritsky explains the further actions of the future hetman by the traditions of the Mazepa clan and the corresponding upbringing:
... Ivan’s father, Stepan Mazepa, didn’t want to join Moscow, was at the same time with Vygovsky ... Ours was both body and soul, he didn’t depart from the Cossacks, no! ... Mazeps were not werewolves, zradniks, and they won’t be! ... " [5 ]
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Critique of the novel
The described image of Ivan Mazepa, which was contrary to the official position of Russian tsarism, aroused concern among the editor-in-chief of the Moscow Leaflet, who was forced to turn to Staritsky with proposals to “slightly correct” the image of the protagonist:
“The kindest Mikhail Petrovich! Forgive me for not answering for a long time: there are so many cases that there is no free minute. Nikolai Ivanovich (Pastukhov, newspaper publisher. - V.P.) proposes to continue Mazepa, but I am afraid of one thing: the first half has already been paid attention to; in the first half of Mazepa - almost an ideal person, hero, etc. Isn’t that the same in the second half of the novel? This is inconvenient, better then take a different topic; I say this for your sake, so as not to come out after undesirable misunderstandings ... ” [5]
Professor Vladimir Polishchuk, analyzing the novel “Mazepa's Youth”, indicates that the novel “was created so that the reader would have no doubt about the author’s sympathy for the main character ...”, he creates an “anti-imperial,“ anti-Anathema ”interpretation of the image of the hetman”. [6]
Notes
- ↑ Moscow Leaf of Pastukhov // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Nadezhda Levchik, candidate of philological sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Return from oblivion.// Staritsky M.P. Youth of Mazepa.-Ukrainian Center for Spiritual Culture. 1997 .-- S. 3-12.
- ↑ Nadezhda Levchik, candidate of philological sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Return from oblivion.// Staritsky M.P. Youth of Mazepa.-Ukrainian Center for Spiritual Culture. 1997 .-- S. 3.
- ↑ Nadezhda Levchik, candidate of philological sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Literature named after T. G. Shevchenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Return from oblivion.// Staritsky M.P. Youth of Mazepa.-Ukrainian Center for Spiritual Culture. 1997 .-- S. 4.
- ↑ 1 2 Vladimir Polishchuk. Ivan Mazepa: version of Mikhail Staritsky
- ↑ Polischuk V. Ivan Mazepa: version by Mikhail Staritsky
see also
- The image of Hetman Mazepa in fiction