THE CRIMINAL CASE OF HNAT KOLTSUNIAK – THE SOURCE FOR LIFE STUDY OF THE REPRESSED AND PROSECUTION OF EMPLOYEES OF THE ALL-UKRAINIAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Abstract

The article aims at the description of documents from the case of Hnat Koltsuniak, Head of the funds in Taras Shevchenko All-Ukrainian Historical Museum (now the National Museum of Ukrainian History), who was accused of being the member to the Ukrainian Military Organization in 1933. The materials are presented in the way that enables to supplement the biography of the ethnographer and museum worker. Their description supplements and provides more details of the picture of the repressions against the Ukrainian intelligentsia. The titles of the documents are translated from Russian into Ukrainian, their dates and locations are provided in the case. The documents composed by Hnat Koltsniak are commented. The names of the staff of Taras Shevchenko All- Ukrainian Historical Museum and cultural figures mentioned in the protocols are given in the Appendix.

Key words: Taras Shevchenko All-Ukrainian Historical Museum, bookplate, Khvedir Vovk Cabinet-museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, Hnat Koltsniak, the National Museum of Ukrainian History, repressed museology, the Central Historical Museum.