Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The Division of Manuscript Collections and Textology of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine is the largest repository in Ukraine of writers’ manuscripts and other documents on the history of Ukrainian literature from the late eighteenth century to the present. The archive holds the richest collection of materials on the history of Ukrainian emigration after the Second World War. The archives of Ivan Bahriany, Vasyl Barka, Natalena Koroleva, Ihor Kostetsky, Dmytro Nytczenko, Mykhailo Orest, and Ulas Samchuk contain materials not only about the literature but also the social and political life of the Ukrainian emigration in Germany, Czechoslovakia, the United States, Canada, Australia, and others. In addition, the manuscript collection widely represents archival materials of literary scholars, in particular, the fonds of Yuriy Boyko-Blohin, Hryhory Kostiuk, and Yurii Lavrinenko.

Director  ─ Mykola Zhulynsky