Ukraine’s First Ethnographic Map

Made in the Russian Empire

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ID11047107
AuthorsAnton Kotenko (0000-0001-7664-9509, National Research University Higher School of Economics, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume48
Issue5
Pages931-941
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2019.75
OpenAlexW3001391792
LanguageEN
References cited17

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Context (archaeology · Empire · Ethnography · Genealogy · Geography · Linguistics · Literature · Mental mapping · Narrative · Possession (linguistics · Ukrainian · Central European and Russian historical studies · European Linguistics and Anthropology · History · Soviet and Russian History

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