Стратегії інтеграції річпосполитських уродженців у соціальний простір Російської імперії у XVIII ст.: випадок священика Павла Лобка

Abstract

Розділ колективної монографії "Імперські ідентичності в українській історії XVIII – першої половини ХІХ ст.".

The last decades of the 18th century in the history of Hetmanate were marked by radical imperial unifications. However, the Russian Empire became the reality for the political and social life of Ukrainians, both natives of the Cossack autonomous entities in the Russian Empire and of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, much earlier. The Hetmanate, and more broadly the whole Russian Empire, attracted people of the "Polish nation" through the opportunity of making a career. Among them one can easily find personalities who frequently and openly demonstrated their loyalty to the Russian monarchs. By focusing on the case of Pavlo Lobko, a native of Volhynia in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who became a parish priest in Kyiv, this chapter examines how "small" people learned to benefit from the Russian Empire already in the mid-18th century.