"On the Threshold of History: Mykhailo Hrushevsky": documentary film

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2012.

The documentary film "On the Threshold of History. Mykhailo Hrushevsky" is dedicated to the young years of the outstanding Ukrainian political figure Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

On the video: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, various plans of the main building; Ukrainian professor Leonid Zashkilnyak talks about Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the formation of the figure in his youth; archival photographs; the influence of the Galician environment on the formation of Hrushevsky; comments from researchers.

Comments: Honorary President of the Ukrainian International PEN Club, writer and essayist Yevhen Sverstyuk; Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Natalia Yakovenko; Publicist Vitaliy Portnikov; Candidate of Historical Sciences Ihor Hyrych; Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Leonid Zashkilnyak; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Myroslav Popovych; Professors, Doctors of Historical Sciences Ihor Verba, Yaroslav Hrytsak.

Host — Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: Mykhailo Hrushevskyi was formed as a historian in the Kyiv scientific environment under the influence of Volodymyr Antonovych, where he combined university education with participation in the Ukrainian intellectual movement and early research into the history of Ukraine. During the Lviv period (1894–1914), he headed the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society, transformed it into a scientific center of European level and laid the foundations for the systematic study of Ukrainian history, in particular through the work "History of Ukraine-Rus".