REACTION TO THE DEATH of М. GRUSHEVSKY ON "WORK" PERIODICAL’S PAGES (NOVEMBER is DECEMBER 1934)
In 2017 Ukraine celebrates an important event: creation of Central Soviet and proclamation of the Ukrainian state system. М. Grushevsky was elected as the chairman of Central Soviet (17 (29).09.1866-24.11.1934) he was an eminent scientist and political figure. At the position of the Ukrainian People’s Republic leader he was estimated differently even by contemporaries. However this figure premature death left aside nobody. In Soviet Ukraine people were afraid to talk and write about М. Grushevsky. The Western Ukraine that those times made part to the Poland, as well as Europe and America, where Ukrainians lived by compact groups, reacted violently to this death. Analysis of publications at the newspaper «Work» shows the magnitude of events concerning the commemoration of the «Father of Ukraine», «Ukrainian Nestor»: people hung black flags on houses Ukrainian institutions, they pasted clepsydra, held plaintive meetings and Academy sessions, where they uttered the essays, dedicated to the scientist’s diverse activities (some articles were published in the «Work»), people ordered the funeral service in churches. It was observed not only in large cities such as Lviv, Przemysl, Ternopil, Lutsk, Warsaw, Prague, Sofia, Paris, New York, but also in small towns and villages of Europe; The memory of this prominent scientist was honored not only by intellectuals, but also all layers of the population.