The National Elite of Ukraine in the Post-Hetmanate Era and Processes of State Creation in the European Content

Current problems of the study of the national elite of Ukraine in the post-hetma period at the end of the 18th – the first half of the 19th centuries are highlighted. in the system of cultural studies taking into account the processes of state formation in the European content. The role and place of the descendants of the leading strata of the Ukrainian Cossack-Hetman state in the historical and cultural processes of this period, who were the bearers of the national idea, and the processes themselves are characterized by the revival of Ukrainian national culture, are outlined. The priority in the research is an interdisciplinary integrative approach to the problem, which objectively illuminates the Ukrainian nobility of the former Left Bank of Ukraine-Hetmanship and the post-Hetmanship period of the 19th century as a systemic integrity, united by: the material basis of its existence; political autonomy and independence, which was ensured by the corresponding legal and legal status; common elements of sociocultural psychology, which was based on awareness of its historical mission and protection of national cultural heritage. The theoretical and methodological basis of such research is the principles of historicism, systematicity, objectivity, comprehensiveness, continuity, dialectical understanding of the historical process as a unity of its components. An objective analysis of the problem indicates the need for substantiation, definition and formation of a separate direction in modern humanitarian science – cultural elitology.