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Apr 15, 2022 · A devout Marxist, she also participated in organizations opposed to the tsarism that drained Ukraine’s resources and stunted the development of Ukraine as an independent country. In 1907 she was arrested by the Russian authorities for her revolutionary sympathies and controversial publications.
- Mariya Prymachenko: Talented Peasant Woman Who Created A Mystic Cosmos
- Kazimir Malevich: Avant-Garde Artist, Founder of Suprematism
- Solomiya Krushelnytska: Wagner’s Diva of The 20th Century
- Oleksandr Archipenko: Sculptor and Artist of Empty Space
- Mykola Lysenko: Father of Modern Ukrainian Classical Music
- Mykola Leontovych: Composer of World-Famous Carol of The Bells
- Oksana Lyniv: First Woman Conductor to Open Bayreuth Opera Festival
Mariya Prymachenko(1908-1997) was a modest, but immensely talented peasant woman from the village of Bolotnia, Kyiv Oblast. Stricken with polio from an early age, she turned to painting and writing. She had an unusually sensitive perception of reality and dedicated her life to creating incredible beauty and a fabulous world of mythological beasts t...
Kazimir Malevich (1879–1935) was an avant-garde artist, a prominent figure of the Ukrainian avant-garde movement, founder of Suprematism, one of the initiators of Cubo-Futurism, art theorist, and author of the famous Black Square and White on White. Although he spent many years in Moscow and Leningrad, the artistic hubs of the Soviet Union, Malevic...
Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872-1952) was an outstanding opera singer, a charismatic and colourful woman who dominated world stages and entranced audiences with her soprano vocals. She emerged from a remote and impoverished village in Galicia (Halychyna) to conquer the stage in the Galician capital of Lviv and then went on to glory and glitter in the ...
Oleksandr Archipenko(1887-1964) was a Ukrainian-American avant-garde artist and sculptor, one of the founders of Cubism in sculpture. He moved to Paris in 1908, and took up residence with other émigré Ukrainian artists in La Ruche, an artist’s colony in the Montparnasse district. Archipenko was the first Ukrainian to take part in the Venice Biennal...
Mykola Lysenko (1842-1912) was a composer, ethnomusicologist, conductor, pianist, pedagogue, and community figure. The descendant of an aristocratic Cossack family, he acquired the rudiments of piano playing from his mother and gained a strong appreciation of Ukrainian music and Cossack lore from his grandparents. Lysenko’s role in Ukrainian music ...
Mykola Leontovych (1877-1921) was a composer, choral conductor and pedagogue. His original spring song Shchedryk, widely known as Carol of the Bells,is sung at Christmas all over the world. Today, there are over 1,000 versions of this popular song. During his lifetime, Leontovych wrote over 150 musical compositions – arrangements of folk songs, rel...
Oksana Lyniv (1978- ) is a world-famous conductor. Raised in a musical family in Brody, Lviv Oblast, Lyniv studied flute and conducting at the Stanislav Liudkevych Music School in Lviv and first conducted an orchestra at the age of 16. Oksana Lynivwas Chief Conductor of the Opera and Philharmonia Orchestra of Graz, Austria till 2020; she is the fou...
Feb 26, 2021 · February 26, 2021. The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University joins its colleagues in the UK and Ukraine to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Lesia Ukraïnka’s birth.
Aug 16, 2021 · Throughout the Revolution of Dignity, as well as during Russia’s war in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko, along with Lesia Ukrainka and Ivan Franko, has been implicitly present as a symbolic leader in Ukraine’s fight for rights and freedoms.
Day of Lesya has been celebrated in Daba Surami since 1952, on the day of her birthday. Better known under her literary pseudonym, Lesya Ukrainka was one was one of Ukraine’s foremost writers, whose work and physical existence was equally nourished by two countries – Ukraine and...
Playwright, poetess, translator, one of the most prominent women in Ukraine Lesya Ukrainka, celebrates in 2021 the 150th anniversary of her birth. The exhibition presents the performances of...
Aug 23, 2021 · The overwhelming majority of Ukrainians believe in democratic ideals and principles. They stand for Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO, and are ready to defend their country’s independence. For the past seven years, Ukraine has been resisting Russian aggression and effectively countering the Kremlin.
