We constantly feel neighbourly relations with Russia: there are such vast expanses! Wealth! Oil! There are such deep-rooted traditions! The world fame and prestige! Scientific achievements! Recognized world literature, ballet, museums! And what have we? «Waving two-colored flag, teach languages, and take pride in this village lout Shevchenko! I personally agree with what to believe Shevchenko world-famous poet too early. Or maybe it was him and not have to? Many non-Russians read Pushkin in translation? May, Shevchenko too «national» to be understood by the other peoples? Yes and in General, many artists from other literatures have a stable success abroad? Not very much, frankly. The main «suppliers» of these writers, the great Britain, Germany, USA, France. Much fewer of them is from Spain, Italy, the Eastern countries.Take the same Russia: one of the writers constantly read, adaptations, put in the theatres of non-Russians abroad? Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov (who wrote in English) is much less — Turgenev, Leskov, Berdyaev. And who from the Russian «Canon» is a pure Russian? The Frenchman Lermontov, an Ethiopian Pushkin, Georgians Mayakovsky or Jew Brodsky? Most of the artists and thinkers of Russia have deep influence of the Ukrainian culture, psychology, nature. Bulgakov, Berdyaev, Tsvetaeva for a long time lived in Kiev. Skovoroda, even Moscow recognized the Ukrainian philosopher, was one of the most influential teachers of Tolstoy. Just a cursory reading Gogol, to determine doublespeak, Ukrainian subject, thinking, humor, quotes from folk songs and doom.Not less than the influence of our culture experienced and neighbouring countries: «Polish» philosopher Orekhovsky and poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, the Frenchman Honore de Balzac, the German Rainer-Maria Rilke, a Jew Sholom-Aleikhem and Jewish civilization as such (Jewish folk tanks come from the Hutsul round dances) , and, finally, the «Russians»: teachers Sukhomlinsky and Makarenko, physics Kapitsa and Paton or literary and theatrical Bohemia Moscow and St. Petersburg, which is automatically replenished the best forces of the Russian colonies, and first of all in Ukraine.If we are talking about the past, then this list can be continued: although this question and difficult, but the «cradle of the three Slavic Nations» was not Moscow or some there, and the Kiev Russia. Before Peter I the whole of Moscow elite was illiterate (!). While in the Ukraine, Cossack officers taught their children in European universities, and literacy was total. «Revival» of the Russian culture of the XVIII century was 90% of the transfer of Kiev elite in Moscow and St. Petersburg. On the background of Mazepa, who was fluent in several European languages, Peter the great with his Dutch shipyards (in modern, vocational school) do not have any advantages.I look forward to the future. My country is yet to say his word. My generation, it's time to act! National character is the «spirit» of the people, the deep of his manifestation, which unite people of a particular nation. It appears historically, as a result of certain stages, which is a separate mass of people, and influences, which it has.The main reasons for the formation of a national character or mentality of the country's geographical location, historical circumstances, social conditions, culture and the actual features of the psychology of the people. The most bright representatives of the domestic world vision, according to the scientists, were MS. Skovoroda, T. Shevchenko N. Gogol. It is in their works we find a deep understanding it.Ukraine is located on the fertile earth, so each Ukrainian family can fully provide for themselves and settle separately. From the earth depended on human destiny, so the connection with the land increased, as a pledge of happiness. Ukrainian understand the earth as the Holy mother, from which man was created, it was consecrated by the blood of ancestors and defenders. For a nation of farmers, the earth was the nurse. Beat it without the need as terrible sin, how to beat the mother. Solemn oath was considered eating lump of earth — a form of communion to the put. Rejoicing work on earth, Ukrainian sought to close to nature, the more interaction with people. Big space of the land brought up in it the worship of life, the sun and the earth. With nature as the principal way of the knowledge of God, man identified her with the Creator. Such a God unite heaven and earth, and therefore the Universe, with the people and the separate person.Ukrainian — individualist. Most of all he loved the freedom of the individual, and first of all freedom of yourself. Therefore, not based cities and generally valued equality and democracy to extremes: spontaneity (the elections in Zaporozhye Sech) and anarchy, even the narrow selfishness.Ukraine's foreign policy for a long time was reduced to a choice with whom to be: with Turkey, Lithuania, Russia, Austro-Hungary or Poland» . Life among the beautiful nature and the constant threat of all is to lose brought the love of life, the intensity of her every moment (as the saying Cossacks, calling for rebellion: «death was inevitable anyway, then what's the difference from then to die from old age or sabres… »).
