UKRAINIAN COSSACKS IN THE LITERARY FAIRY TALES BY P. KOROBCHANSKY AND V. KORNIENKO
The article considers the question of concluding the full bibliography of Ukrainian folk and literary fairy tales as an important factor in spiritual culture. This is due to the fact that such folk genre was also subjected to the control of the Communist ideology. That is why some tales, branded as "bourgeois-nationalist works" were taboo ones. Two rare literary tales by sicheslav’s writers of the twentieth century - P. Korobchansky and V. Kornienko belong to such forbidden ones. And therefore there is great need to return them from oblivion artistic wealth in all its manifestations folk and literary writing. They glorified the freedom-loving Prometheus’s fire of Ukrainians, which is embodied in the victorious struggle of the people knights with numerous enemies that infringed on freedom, faith, customs, language, land of the Cossacks. Both tales represented the Cossacks’ way of life of two families in the images of the older and younger generations. If Vasyl Kornienko patterned the mythological traditions of folk tales in the delineation their characters, appending really vivid historical facts of the Zaporozhian Sich life but Petro Korobchansky focused on realistic paintings of steppe daredevils struggle against the Tatar-Turkish invaders. Common features to these works are a colorful storyline of folk family pedagogy, medicine in the education of the younger generation, which should inherit as the most expensive testament - feelings of love and devotion to the native land. A sample of such education is their parents and grandparents with their rich experience in running their own farms, hunting and military skills. Kornieynko’s attention focused on the education of 15-year-old boy Vasil’ko and behaviour characteristics of the hero in different situations, which were unforeseen in fabulous circumstances. They contributed to the formation of his feelings Cossack quenching. But Korobchansky did not bypassed educational moments in the formation of character young lady Ivonne and her brother but he illuminated their bravery on the battlefield in the fight against the insidious enemy. There is no doubt that such rare works should take its rightful place in the educational process of modern youth.