Legacy of Meletii Smotrytsky

Khmelnytsky Television, 2004. The program "Well, what if, it seemed, words..." is dedicated to a literary event in the village of Smotrytsky, Khmelnytsky region.

On the video: Smotrytsky school; children; recitation of poems by Taras Shevchenko; Smotrytsky family tree; historical background; excursion; children reciting poetry.

The program was attended by students of the secondary school of the village of Smotrytsky, Dunayevets district: Olga Tsita, Zhanna Hvozdyovska, Karina Alieva, Viktoriya Kozyaruk, Diana Kondratyuk, Maryna Klyus.

The program was worked on by: Oksana Delita, Volodymyr Palamar, Lyubov Kurmanska.

Reference: Meletius Smotrytskyi is a key figure in early modern Ukrainian and East Slavic philology, the author of polemical and theological texts in Old Ukrainian that shaped the intellectual space of Orthodox and Unionist discussion in the first third of the 17th century. His "Grammar of Slavonic" became the normative basis of Church Slavonic for the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, and South Slavic literary traditions for several centuries.