У cтaттi окреслено основні засоби творення образу Івана Мазепи в романі-епопеї Богдана Лепкого «Мазепа» ma icmopuчному poмані Леоніда Полтави «Тисяча сімсот дев’ять». Виявлено елементи романтизації та широкий спектр засобів, що розкривають багатогранність постаті гетьмана. Визначено спільні риси творів.
The article analyses the main means of Ivan Mazepa image formation on the level of out of plot elements, plot steps, the functioning of other images historical novels by Bogdan Lepky and Leonid Poltava. The main attention was paid on the functioning of given image in text.
The series of historical novels devoted to Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa takes a special place in Bogdan Lepkyj’s creative work. Both peculiarities of historical events description and specific features of historic truth with the author’s conjecture in the novel “Mazepa” have been analyzed. The plot of the story characteristic features of the protagonist’s image.
The article focuses on the significance of the figure of Ivan Mazepa in the history of Ukrainian people in the period of national renaissance. The greatest interest causes the interpretation of the Hetman person by Bogdan Lepkyj, who departed from an established tradition in Western literature portray Mazepa as a romantic hero, captured mainly their love stories. Writer shows him as a statesman and a man who manages his personal life to subdue the supreme interests. Determined that the novel “1709” by Leonid Poltava contains two storylines that reveal mental and political pictures of Ukraine the end of XVII – the beginning of the XVIII centuries. The image of Ivan Mazepa as a political figure presented with the maximum precision, and the image of the people romanticized. Leonid Poltava, writing a work, used archival and historical sources that have strengthened the historical and art truth of the novel.
