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Introduction
37
FranciszekRawita-Gawronskiwasoneofthefirsttodescribemanuscript
no.1977ofacopyoftheDiaryof800pages.
46
Attheendofthe19
th
cen
-
tury,hefoundinthePrincesCzartoryskiLibraryinKrakowamanuscript
ofacopymadebyanonymouspalaeographers
47
andusedittounderstand
thelifeof“theHetmanofUkraine,unrecognisedbyanystate,oneofthe
mosteducatedandbravestthatUkrainehaseverhad.”
48
Besides,itseemsessentialtoaddresssomeissuesrelatedtotheemigrant
hetmanandhisDiary-intheso-calledinterwarperiodofthe20
th
century.
49
Itbecamesignificantthatthemanuscriptwasdecipheredandpublished
bytheUkrainianScientificInstituteinWarsaw
50
.Asaresult,in1936,afrag-
mentofOrlyk’sDiarywaspublished,covering1720-1723oftheHetman’s
lifeinexile.Tisinitialpassagewasdecipheredfromthemanuscript,
editedandpreparedforpublicationbyJanTokarzewski-Karaszewicz.
51
In
anappendix,hepresentedseveraldocuments(materialonOrlykfromthe
Stockholm,DresdenandPrussianarchives).
Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz,ontheassumptionthatnotthecopybutthe
originalhasextraordinaryimportance,
52
intendedtoreadtheentiremanu-
scriptandprintallfivevolumesoftheDiary,andseparately-involume
six-topresenttheHetman’sbiographywithdetailedinformationabout
thefamilyof“theCountsofLaziskOrlykandrelatedfamilies,collections
ofadditionaldocuments,supplementsandregisters.”
53
However,hedidnot
managetodoso.Ayearlater,in1937,theUkrainianScientificInstitutein
WarsawpublishedBorisKrupnytsky’sbookaboutthepoliticalactivityof
theHetmaninexile
54
.Tiscomprehensivemonographplayedanimpor
-
tantroleinstudyingOrlyk’slife,politicalanddiplomaticactivities.55Itwas
46
F.Rawita-Gawroński,“FilipOrlikjakohetmankozacki,”BibliotekaWarszawska
1899,pp.394-395.
47Ibidem.
48Ibidem,p.394.
49
AtthattimeinFrance,ElieBorschakwasworkingonfatherandsonOrlykmaterials,
buthisbookswerebannedforyearsandonlypublishedinindependentUkraine.
50TisscientificresearchinstitutionoperatedinWarsawfrom1930to1939.
51Д.яр.йгетьманаПилипаОрлика...(1936).
52Ibidem,p.VI.
53Ibidem,p.IX.
54
Б.KрупнMцbкMй,ГетьманПилипОрлик(1672-1742):oглядйогопол.тично{
д.яльности...
55
ReviewingKrupnytsky’sbook,JózefŁobodowskiwrotethatthemonographonOrlyk,
basedonrichandsolidhistoricalmaterial,ismuchmorethanaresearchorasimplesketch
ofthehetman’spoliticalactivity.Łobodowskicalledthiswork“aninvaluablecontributionto
theknowledgeoftheessenceofMoscowimperialism,asithasbeenforcenturiesand
