Abstract
The purpose of the study. The article deals with the analysis of the unique personality as the greatest value of earthly existence because of a growing interest in historical and biographical researches. Interest in the study of such personalities is eternal, because each new generation finds spiritual guidelines, which are crucial for a person’s self-affirmation, in their activities. This article is the attempt to write the biography, creative life path of a talented artist and teacher Kornii Henrikhovych Mikindo (1918–1990), who had exerted a decisive influence on hundreds of his pupils being the part of the spiritual and cultural elite of Ukraine. Research methodology is based on the use of general scientific principles of: historicism, objectivity, systematicity in combination with the following special and historical methods: problem and chronological, descriptive, historical and systematic, historical and biographical. Scientific novelty consists in the systematization of biographical information in combination with the materials of interviews with K. H. Mikindoʼs pupils. The fragments of interviews with five “mikindovtsiˮ (K. H. Mikindoʼs pupils) and Uman residents knowing his family were used in the article. It significantly supplemented the biography of the artist and teacher. Conclusions. We systematized the information about K. H. Mikindoʼs creative activity, which had been published in Uman newspapers and had been received after interviewing his pupils and the acquaintances of his family members. It made it possible to conduct a comprehensive study of the creative biography of the talented artist and teacher. Owing to the application of a complex approach we managed to carry out the extensive historical and biographical research on the gifted personality. In the process of writing the article we revealed a growing interest of the scientific and creative community of Ukraine in compiling a complete biography of Kornii Henrikhovych Mikindo.