Historiographical heritage of "Hlukhiv period" during Hetmanate (1708-1782)

The article is devoted to the historiographical legacy "Hlukihiv period" of Hetmanate’s history, quantitative and qualitative characteristics, personalities of the historiographical process eighteenth century. Their personal contribution to the writing of the Cossack chronicles, Diariush, diaries, historical works of the first attempts to create a documentary base of historical works, shaping the content of national statehood ideology of the period and its impact on maintaining autonomous legal principles in relations with Russia and other countries. The aim of the work is to systematize historiographical monuments created in "Hlukihiv period", establishing their semantic significance to the status of historical thought and its influence on the formation of political mentality of Ukrainian society, strengthening disclosure autonomist sentiments after the performance of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, showing the origin of Archaeological and antique activity and its importance for Ukrainian history, enrichment of Ukrainian historical thought new works, study of the first steps on the application of scientific principles to the understanding of historical events and developments. The objective of the work is to determine the role of the General Military Office in preparation of the high-society elite, in its representatives’ writing chronicles, diaries, compacts and documentary collections, in laying the foundations of Ukrainian historiography, in formation of political culture and national state ideology, in distinguishing such a special phenomenon as public chronicle-writing. The subject of the research is the process of creating the historiographic legacy within the time of the "Hlukhiv Period", activation of historical work, which has much deeper national background than connection with ideas of romanticism and national spirit that have arisen in Western Europe. The object of the work is the analysis of political and ideological content of chronicles by colonel H. Hrabyanka, office clerk of the General Military Office S. Velychko, transport driver Y. Lyzohub, military office clerk and Poharsky headman H. Pokas, regiment transport driver S. Lukomskyi etc. The success has also been achieved in determination of the purpose of writing and content of the public diaries, created by groups of two to ten officials of the General Military Office, personal diaries of the general cornet M. Khanenko, general office clerks P. Borzakivskyi and P. Ladynskyi, general treasurer Y. Markovych, and the son of hetman D. Apostol ? after some time colonel P. Apostol. It has been given the evaluation of the first works on the Ukrainian history by P. Symonovskyi, V. Ruban, Y. Markovych, programmes of Topographic Description of Hetmanschyna (1778 ? 1781), description of cultural and religious values of 1780 by V. Tumanskyi, poetic work on historical and political topics by S. Divovych "Conversation between Great Russia and Little Russia", political content of philosophy of the Ukrainian democratic enlightener Y. Kozelskyi and the native legal scholar F. Chuikevych.