Кирило-Методиевата идея в поробена Жечпосполита (Предварителни бележки)
The Cyril and Methodius Idea in the Enslaved Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Preliminary Notes)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the Cyrillo-Methodian idea in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 19th century under the conditions of slavery. It discusses the regional differences in the treatment of the problem in the three zones: the Prussian, Russian and Austrian, and Еmigration. The main thematic and ideological currents of the works under consideration are presented in a polemical context, mainly between Moscow, the Vatican and Vienna. Cyril and Methodius serve different ideas; they are at the centre of the polemic on the theme of Poland between East and West, Orthodoxy–Catholicism, the native–European. The material studied so far allows us to speak of a rich symbolism of the work of Cyril and Methodius. In Poland, enslaved by its neighbours, and in the ill-will of Western Europe, it is a marker of religious and ethnic identity, a weapon against Orthodoxy, Pan-Slavism and Germanism, and the surest link to Rome and the Pope’s patronage of the remaining Western Slavs.

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