Dr. Ivan Nimchuk. Ukrainians and the rebuff of Vienna in 1683: in the 250th anniversary of a great historical event. Lviv: author's impression, 1933. - 64 p. ill. - 22 x 15.5 cm. From the printer of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Lifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collection interest. Information Brochure on the participation of Ukrainians in the rescue of Vienna in 1683, issued to the 250th anniversary of the battle. The first part (p. 3-42) leads from Sobieski's contract with Tsar Leopold through a set of Cossack volunteers and a campaign near Vienna to the liberation of the city, the pursuit of the Turks. The second part (p. 43-57) is dedicated to Yuri Franz Kulchytsky: who he is, what his feat is, how he became the first coffeemaker in Vienna and what remained in his memory. On p. 41 - reproduced engraving with the figure of Kulchytsky and a sample of his signature; according to the author, the form "Kholtschitzkhy" indicates Ukrainian origin. Ivan Nimchuk (1891-1956) - journalist and public figure, doctor of philosophy of the University of Vienna (1924), a full member of the NTSH, from 1925 worked in Lviv "Dila", in 1935-1939 - co-editor. That same year, 1933, his separate work Yuri Franz Kulchytsky and his feat was published. After the arrival of the Soviet authorities in 1939, Nimchuk was arrested and taken to Moscow; he wrote about this memoirs “595 days as a Soviet prisoner” (Toronto, 1950). He died in Edmonton. The book was published by the author in the NTSH printing house. The author openly polemicizes with Polish historiography: in a footnote on page 15, he calls the work of F. Ravity-Gavronsky about Cossacks near Vienna ("Rok Polski", Krakow, 1916) written tendentiously, in a spirit hostile to Cossacks. On the page of content is printed the “Message of Error”: in this note Colonel Paul Apostle Grurovsky is mistakenly placed “in Brasni”, should be “in Bragina”.
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