Cossack Bibliography
Cossack Bibliography is
the first major bibliography on the subject in any language. It is the
first bibliography in English on a subject of considerable importance in
European History. It is especially full on the Ukrainian, Zaporozhian, Kuban as well as the Russian Don Cossacks. With
over 1,500 selected entries, many annotated, it is a resource providing
access to materials from the years 1300 to 2007. It includes titles on Cossackiana
by Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Napoleon’s famous quote, Lord Byron, Sir
Walter Scott, Taras Shevchenko, Dmytro Yavornytsky, Peter Tchaikovsky, Nicholas
Gogol, Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy. In addition to English language
materials in monographs, analytical, journal and magazine articles, rare maps
of the ‘Land of the Cossacks’, films, poems, music, and operas, it includes a
few Internet sites. There are 796 entries of materials in English,
French (117), German (59), Ukrainian (300), Russian (113) Polish (23) and
Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Latin and Czech titles with full bibliographical
descriptions. Over 100 facsimiles of title pages, rare maps and Cossack
portraits and illustrations are included. The fall of the Soviet Union has
eliminated the fierce Soviet censorship and has resulted in an explosion of
interest today in the Cossack heritage of Ukraine
and Russia.
The book has been endorsed by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv) and the Ucrainica Research
Institute, Toronto.
About the Bibliographer – Andrew
Gregorovich
Andrew Gregorovich is a well known
bibliographer who has prepared several significant bibliographies. Born in
Western Canada, educated at McMaster University and the University
of Toronto, he was a Department Head
in the University
of Toronto Library, for over
30 years. Some of his bibliographies include: Canadian Ethnic Groups
Bibliography (1972), A Bibliography of Canada’s Peoples (1993), Scythian
Bibliography: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Scythia (2002).
Mr. Gregorovich has served as
the Chairman of the Toronto Historical Board, President of the Ontario
Library Association, President of the Ontario College & University Library
Association, President of the Canadian Multilingual Press Federation, a member
of the Academic Board of the Governing Council of the University of
Toronto and was invited to membership in the Centre for Russian and East
European Studies (now CERES) at the University. He has served as Executive
Director of the Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre. Since
1967, he has been Editor of the quarterly Forum Ukrainian Review. He has
given lectures at the University of Toronto, Harvard
University, the American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the Vernadsky National Library in Kiev and at the Learned Societies Conference in Canada. He
is President of the Ukrainian Librarians Association of Canada, and
Vice-President of the Shevchenko
Museum. He is a
member of the Order of St. Andrew and the
Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was awarded the City of Toronto Medal and the
Ukrainian Canadian Congress awarded him the prestigious Shevchenko Medal.
Donation in support of
publication are being organized by Alex Jemetz, 263 Indian Rd., Toronto,
ON M6R 2X3,
tel.: 416-516-2800. Names of donors over $100 will be printed in the book. The
publishing date is April 2008.