The figure of metropolitan Hryhory Tsamblak in the understanding of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi

The purpose of the article is to study the Ukrainian historiographical process on the study of the Ukrainian late Middle Ages, directly the creative legacy of the most outstanding Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevskyi. The following methods are used in the research: comparative, critical, systematic, methods of source analysis. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time in historiography, research of Hrushevskyi on figure and the creative heritage of Kyiv Metropolitan Hryhory Tsamblak was analyzed. Conclusions. In the vision of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, the significance of the figure of Hryhory Tsamblak in the history of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Church is that his election as Metropolitan of Kyiv by the Synod of Bishops in Novohrudok became one of the key events in the separation of the Moscow Metropolis, and accordingly, the formation of a separate Kyiv Metropolitanate for the lands of Lithuania and Poland. Hrushevsky doesn’t consider Tsamblak to be a convinced supporter of the union of the Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church. However, scholar doesn’t show him even to ardent Orthodox. Hrushevsky paid some attention to the figure of Tsamblak the bookkeeper, whom he considers a representative of the «Middle Bulgarian influence» in the history of Ukrainian literature and culture. In general, Hrushevskyi created the first in Ukrainian historiography, albeit a controversial, but integral image of Hryhory Tsamblak, outlined his place in the history of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Church and culture in general