Великое Княжество Литовское как Исторический Опыт: Случай Украины

SUMMARY:

The article is devoted to the problems of perception of historical experience of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) at the level of Ukrainian national consciousnesses. The author focuses on the analysis of Ukrainian “visions” of the key questions of “Grandlithuanian” history, while the most attention is paid to their features (as such weak interest to the problem of the beginnings of GDL, the ambivalent relation to the Lithuanian-Moscow opposition, exaggerated interest to “the Black Sea policy” of GDL, etc.). At the same time, specificity of personal “cults” of public figures of GDL taking place in Ukraine is considered. Regional features of perception of “Grandlithuanian” inheritance are analyzed and prospects of deployment Lithuanian’s studies in the Ukrainian regions are considered. The conclusion about significant potential of historical experience of GDL for the construction of the intellectual concept of modern Ukraine is made.