Literary and Scientific Herald

“ Literary and Scientific Bulletin ” (“LNV”) (in Ukrainian Literary and Scientific Research Journal ) is an all-Ukrainian monthly literary, artistic, scientific, and socio-political journal . It was founded in 1898 as a continuation of Zarya magazine, published by the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society, and Life and Word magazine, edited by I. Franko (1894-96). The original name is “Native Word”. It was published in Lviv (1898–1906), Lviv and Kiev (1907–1914, 1917–1919), Lvov (1922–1932, edited by D. Dontsov ).

The editorial board was composed of Mikhail Hrushevsky , Ivan Franko , Alexander Borkovsky, and Osip Makovei . In 1899, Vladimir Gnatyuk replaced A. Borkovsky and O. Makovei (as a constant technical editor and proofreader). The actual chief editor in the Lviv period (1898-1906) was Ivan Franko , although it was M. Hrushevsky who had the idea of ​​creating a journal and he carried out general management of the journal, published many of his articles, and controlled the process of preparation and publication.

The magazine followed the patterns of Western “fat” magazines of the time. It published literary works, journalism, literary criticism, articles on scientific topics. The magazine united around itself the entire Ukrainian literary elite of that time - poets, writers, journalists, critics from Galicia, Bukovina and Little Russia. The publication of poetic and literary works of Ukrainian authors, articles devoted to the jubilees of Ukrainian public figures, information about new Ukrainian editions contributed to the approval of the ideal of the conciliar independent Ukrainian state. It was here that the “Way-ways” of Ivan Franko, “Choral-potion” by Nikolai Voronoi , “The Pre-Dawn Lights” by Lesya Ukrainka , and critical articles by Nikolay Evshan were first published. The Ukrainian translations of Edgar Allan Poe , Friedrich Schiller , Shakespeare were also printed.

After the revolution of 1905, favorable conditions for the development of a publishing house in the Ukrainian language arose in Russia. The special splendor of Galicia as a "national Piedmont" gradually begins to fade. Due to the fact that a number of members of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society began to complain about the magazine’s position on various sociopolitical problems, in particular, its criticism of the Galician political parties, the journal’s publication was transferred to the Ukrainian-Russian Publishing Union ( Ukrainian Ukrainskko -Ruska Vidavnicha Spіlka ).

Wanting to preserve the all-Ukrainian character of the journal, Mikhail Hrushevsky decided to transfer it from Lviv to Kiev. In the years 1906-13, the magazine is published in two editions - Kiev and Lviv. The active and fruitful work of Ivan Franko was prevented by a serious illness. In 1908, Grushevsky was forced to state that Franco could no longer take an active part in the preparation of the journal. Until 1912, he himself headed the editorial board, later remained its chief editor (the chief editor was O. Oles). The publication of the magazine was interrupted by the First World War and the reference to Grushevsky. Returning from exile in March 1917, Grushevsky resumed publication, but, busy working in the Central Rada, could no longer give him the previous attention and handed over the leadership of the magazine to his brother Alexander. The publisher of the journal in this period was the Society for Assistance to Ukrainian Literature, Science and Art (in Ukrainian. The Partnership of Ukrainian Medicine , Science and Technology ). After the brothers were forced to leave Kiev at the end of January 1919, the publication continued until 1920.

In 1922, the publication of the Literary and Scientific Gazette resumed on Polish territory, in Lviv, at the expense of the underground Ukrainian military organization . Its financing was conditioned by a number of obligations on the part of the publisher ( ukr. Ukrainian Vidavnichnaya spilka ): Dmitry Dontsov , a well-known journalist known for his right-wing views, was appointed to the post of editor-in-chief, and Yevgeny Konovalets himself was introduced to the editorial board ^[1] . The publication continued until 1932. In 1933-39, the journal was published under the amended name "Bulletin" (ed. D. Dontsov).