Współczesne znaczenie pracy Ryszarda Łużnego o wychowankach Akademii Kijowsko-Mohylańskiej

This paper attempts to investigate the current relevance and significance of the work published by Prof. Ryszard Łużny in 1966, entitled Writers in the Kiyv-Mohyla Academy circle and their influence on Polish literature. This seminal work became an epistemological and axiological foundation for the author's own research, but also for his numerous students and followers, engaged in the investigations of the Polish-East-Slavic relations in the domains of culture and religion. Łużny's work is an example of an objective and ideologically unbiased, humanistic approach of a philologist and researcher of cultures to facts and to the ontological, axiological and historical truth they correspond with. Rejecting the theory of the paramount role of Polish culture in shaping the creative personalities of the writers – students of Kiyv-Mohyla Academy – R. Łużny proved that they were a first point of contact between the East-Slavic culture, mostly Russian, Poland and the West.