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Ukraine’s First Ethnographic Map: Made in the Russian Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2020

Anton Kotenko
Anton Kotenko*
Affiliation:
Department of History, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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*Corresponding author. Email address: akotenko@hse.ru
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Abstract

This article examines the first published ethnographic map of Ukraine, which appeared in Lviv in 1861. While carefully analyzing new archival and published sources from both the Habsburg and Romanov empires, it puts this map into the wider context of a contemporary Ukrainian national movement. I argue that Russian Ukrainian activists of 1860s were unquestionably interested in the extent of Ukrainian national territory and had handwritten maps of Ukrainian national territory in their possession. Contrary to the conventional narratives that the 1861 map was drawn in Lviv by Mykhailo Kossak, I argue instead that the map could have been produced by the Russian Ukrainian activist, Mykhailo Levchenko, and was later transferred to Galicia for publication. Stipulating the need to account for sources from both the Romanov and Habsburg empires—studying both cartographic and textual sources—I argue that similar studies should necessarily be located at the juncture of history of cartography and the intellectual history of mental mapping. Only such approach will provide an undistorted picture of a process of national territorialization.

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Ukrainenationalismterritorializationcartographyempires
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 48 , Issue 5 , September 2020 , pp. 931 - 941
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