Abstract

The European vector of development of modern Ukraine requires a new reconstruction of national history, which in turn makes it possible to make sure: this choice is not a conjuncture, but a completely natural, historically justified, nationally conscious one. Of course, in such a thematization, the question of the European fate of Ukraine coincides not only with political, but also with social, cultural, historical, religious and other aspects of research. It was in such a broad context that Mikhail Drahomanov, the first “Ukrainian European”, thought. However, unlike modern reform theorists of the Soviet school, he considered spiritual and moral-ethical factors to be the most significant.