Чудесне і реальне оздоровлення в час епідемії (Салоніцький 1724 рік Пилипа Орлика)

The year 2022 marks the 350th anniversary of birth leader first Ukrainian emigration in Europe, hetman Pylyp Orlyk (1672–1742). main goal this article is to present an analysis a certain manuscript which was read out loud and prepared for publication 1724. It contains fragment diary that wrote during 1720–1732. 1724 one hardest his travels through Turkish-occupied province Thessaloniki, where epidemic (or, as put it, “infection,” “evil air” or “plague”) lasted several years broke out. Orlyk’s subsequent years, including 1730, filled with dramatic imagery disease. uses methodology history private life. author explores motifs both miraculous real recovery. In conditions isolation, enforced loneliness, separation from wife, Anna Gertsik, their eight children, finds salvation faith God, but also reading, translating, learning foreign languages, communicating few friends. comes conclusion resembles Montaigne understanding loneliness. What he seeks not isolation people, inner freedom, strives reunite family.