Viktor Danylenko, Oleksandr Danylenko, Oleksandr Dobrzhanskyi. Stepan Smal-Stotskyi. "Deserved before the whole of Ukraine." – Kyiv: Parliament Publishing House, 2023, 336 p.

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyze the monograph of the famous modern Ukrainian historians V. Danylenka, O. Dobrzhansky and O. Danylenka, which highlights the life and activities of academician Stepan Yosypovych Smal-Stotsky, a well-known Ukrainian cultural and socio-political figure, teacher, Slavic scholar, who made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian history, literary studies, and journalism. Professor of Chernivtsi and Ukrainian Free University in Prague. Honorary member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Member of the Bukovyna Diet and the Austrian Parliament. In 1918, he became one of the first academicians of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Ambassador of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Czechoslovakia. Founder and first president of the Ukrainian Mohyla-Mazepin Academy of Sciences. The author of school textbooks on his native language, as well as scientific research on I. Franko, Yu. Fedkovich, I. Kotlyarevskyi, T. Shevchenko, and others. He left extensive correspondence and memories rich in information for scientists.