Appropriation of Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage as a Legitimization of Russia’s Imperial Aspirations

Aniela Radicka is a university teacher and researcher at the Department of Polish-Ukrainian Studies, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Jagiellonian University. She holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Wrocław, Poland (2021). She earned her MA degree in international relations studies (2014) and MA in cultural studies (2014), both from Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland). She specialises in Ukrainian contemporary women’s prose, gender studies in Eastern European context (particularly in Ukraine), women's literary (auto)biography in cultural, social and political contexts, national identity building in post-1991 Ukraine and the role of women in it.Alicja Z. Nowak is a Ukrainian Philologist, Habilitated Doctor of Humanities, Professor of Jagiellonian University, and Head of the Department of Polish-Ukrainian Studies Faculty of International and Political Science of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Her research focusses on the history of Kyivan Metropolitanate and on cultural phenomena that are part of the so-called Church renewal of Eastern Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She is the author of sixty articles and books on the cultural heritage of Eastern churches in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. She is also co-editor of ten monographs and thematic issues of journals.

• 1: Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage and the Problem of Appropriation: An Introduction, Alicja Z. Nowak and Aniela Radecka 2: Kyivan Metropolitanate and Moscow Patriarchate – On the History of Cultural-Administrative Appropriation, Marzanna Kuczyńska and Alicja Z. Nowak 3: Was the Pereiaslav Agreement (1654) the Result of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's “Orthodox Choice”, Tetiana Grygorieva 4: Appropriation of the Orthodox faith: discussion on transubstantiation between Kyivan and Muscovite ecclesiastics in the 17th century, Nataliia Sinkevych 5: Holy Monks of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in the Imperial Service, Maksym Yaremenko 6: Hryhoriy Skovoroda in the History of the Russian Philosophy – an Imperial Perspective, Denys Pilipowicz 7: Appropriation of Kyiv’s Cultural Heritage by the Russian Empire in the Late Eighteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Case of Travel Literature, Kateryna Dysa 8: The Archival Legacy of Pantelemon Yuriev. Fr. Jan Polański's Letters, Olga Kich-Masłej 9: The “Reunification” of Greek Catholics in Transcarpathia. Why the Soviet Assimilatory Action Failed?, Natalia Shlikhta 10: Appropriation of Cultural Heritage Through the Falsification of its Creators’ Nationality. Burliuk, Malevich, Ekster, Agnieszka Gronek 11: Aspects of the National Cultural Identity of Ukrainian Cinema as exemplified by Kira Muratova’s Creative Output, Mariia Lihus 12: Constructing Narratives About Donbas: Identity, Society, Culture.The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations, Aniela Radecka 13: The Resilience Legacy and Symbolism of Bohdan Solchanyk, Victoria Amelina and Volodymyr Vakulenko for Ukrainian Culture, Iryna Polets-Gerus Appendix: “UCulture”: A Professional Project about Ukrainian Culture, Larysa Dovga and Mariia Lihus. Selected Bibliography