Сборник польских и украинских песен Вацлава Залеского в контексте польско-украинских межкультурных контактов в Восточной Галиции в первой половине ХIХ века
Collection of polish and ukrainian songs by Waclaw Zaleski in the context of polish-ukrainian intercultural relations in Eastern Galicia in the first half of the 19th century

Summary/Abstract: The article raises issues of intercultural relations in Eastern Galicia as an integral part of the Habsburg monarchy in the first half of the nineteenth century. It is known that this territory is positioned as a space in which competing discourses and identities were born and interacted. However, the cultural texts created in this border region contributed to the formation of a common culture for the peoples who inhabited it. Confirmation of this point of view is the collection “Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego”, created by the famous Polish ethnographer, poet, playwright and politician Waclaw Zaleski. It is said that the time of the collection coincided with the time when the huge capital of the Polish-Ukrainian cultural heritage preserved in memory was close to extinction, due to the active Germanization processes of the Habsburg administration in Eastern Galicia. W. Zaleski’s collection includes 1496 songs, of which 856 are Polish and 556 are Ukrainian, some of which were harmonized by the composer and violinist K. Lipinski. It is noted that Zaleski’s work had a great influence on the further development of Polish and Ukrainian culture and helped to strengthen the interest of Polish writers in Ukrainian history and culture.

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