UKRAINE BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA: MYKHAILO HRUSHEVSKY'S VISION

In the article a problem of positioning of Ukraine between Europe and Russia in Mykhailo Hrushevsky's creative heritage has been investigated. The scholar's emotionality in historiographic and politological discourses that became sensibly manifested when he put the question of the Ukrainians' geopolitical interest on axiologic lines the friend - the foe" is particularly specified. In that case, on the contrary to his repeatedly declared pro-western orientation, M. Hrushevsky's sympathies were often at the side of the Russian neighbour. The fact that such ambivalence was characteristic to Ukrainian humanitarian studies and political thought not only of the 20th century, but elsewhere in Ukrainian historical time is pointed out. The aforementioned fact activates the continuation of the research of the problem Ukraine between Europe and Russia" in wider chronological and thematic contexts.