Periodicals in S. Efremov Children's, Youth and Younger Years: Memoir Dimension

In recent decades, under the influence of globalization processes in the world, fiction has begun to noticeably lose its position, it began to be gradually displaced by the documentary, a variety of which is memoir literature. Memories increasingly began to emerge from the margins of scientific studies. S. Efremov’s memoirs, which were still known to a limited number of researchers, after the presentation in a separate publication, provided an opportunity to better understand his personality, to clarify the factors shaping his worldview, testified to the role of periodicals he read in children, youth and young years in which he published, with which he argued. Memoirs have become an important page in the history of Ukrainian journalism.

The purpose of the article is to clarify the role of Russian and Halych publications in expanding worldviews, forming the Ukrainian-centric positions of the author, outlining the beginning of journalistic, scientific, and public activities.

The library of his father, a village priest, and later the book collection of his brother, the rector of the Kyiv Theological Seminary Ioannykii, provided an opportunity for S. Efremov to get acquainted with a large number of periodicals of tsarist Russia. The acquired knowledge significantly expanded his worldview horizons, encouraged him to defend the rights of Ukrainians to publish in their native language. The collaboration of the memoirs’ author with several Russian publications, as well as with Halych periodicals, coincides with the revival of Ukrainians public activity, gradual changes in their national consciousness. Publications in Russian newspapers and magazines became a school for S. Efremov to hone his journalistic skills. The author’s fruitful collaboration with Russian ("Syn otechestva" ("Son of the Fatherland"), "Kiev Word") and Halych ("Zoria", "Pravda", "Notes of the Shevchenko Scientific Society", "Literary-Scientific Bulletin") publications in the memoirs ended with the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905, as a result of which for the first time on the territory of the Russian Empire appeared some Ukrainian-language publications ("Public Opinion" and "New Community"), in which the author of the memoirs played an active role.