D. I. Bagaliy contribution to the development of source problems in the history of Ukraine

The article analyzes famous Ukrainian historian D. I. Bagaliy work in the area of source studies and archaeography. The article also ascertains scientist's contribution to the development of the particular theoretical, methodological, methodical and problem practical aspects of the Ukrainian history source studies. It is stated that the source studies parts of "The Ukrainian historiography essays" should be considered as the most weighable contribution of the scientist. "The Ukrainian historiography essays" outdid all present synthetic works in Ukrainian source studies and historiography by the conception breadth, the volume and the circumstantiality, and the scientific analytics level in some cases. The author determines the general nature of the D. I. Bagaliy's scientific activities in the area of historiography, source studies and archaeography on the basis of his source studies works and special divided to him literature analysis. It was strongly influenced by the works of K. M. Bestuzhev-Ryumin and V. S. Ikonnikov and similar to them in methodological and methodical aspects. Some researchers name the direction represented by these scientists a "bibliographic" direction, emphasizing that it was aimed to accumulate historic facts and to summarize them. The other naming of the direction is "critical source studies" (modern Ukrainian historian V. V. Kravchenko). Concentration on facts, efforts to avoid synthetic summarizing and conclusions were the typical features not only for D. I. Bagaliy's works, but for main part of present Ukrainian historians positivists, in particular representatives of Kyiv historians documentalists school (D. I. Bagaliy came from this school too). The analysis of historiographic and archaeographic D. I. Bagaliy's work allows to assert that this scientist was a typical representative of steamlined classic positivism in the late XIXth and early XXth centuries historic science.