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Shevchenko National Preserve
Shevchenko National Preserve (ukr. Шевченківський національний заповідник; Shevchenkivskyi natsionlnyi zapovidnyk) is a national park near Kaniv (Ukraine), famous for the grave of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko and a museum dedicated to his memory. The total area of the reserve is 45 hectares, the reserve includes eight cultural heritage sites, and borders the Kaniv Nature Reserve.SA Bryzhytska. Shevchenkivsky National Reserve in Kaniv. Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine : in 10 vol. Кyiv : Naukova dumka, 2013. Vol. 10. p. 617. 784 pp. ISBN 978-966-00-1359-9 Background On May 22, 1861, famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was buried on a Chernecha hill, which afterwards was known as Tarasova. In 1884, the first folk museum of Taras Shevchenko was built on Tarasova Hill and a monumental cast-iron cross-monument designed ин Viktor Sichugov was erected. On June 10, 1918, the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian State recognized the tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaniv
Kaniv ( uk, Канів, ) city located in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. The city rests on the Dnieper River, and is also one of the main inland river ports on the Dnieper. It hosts the administration of Kaniv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: Kaniv is a historical town that was founded in the 11th century by Kievan Prince Yaroslav the Wise. This pleasant city is known today mostly for the burial site of Taras Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet and artist. Picturesque and ancient, Kaniv was once one of the largest cities of Kievan Rus'. At that time, it was an outpost used for diplomatic meetings between Ruthenian princes and ambassadors of militant tribes. Later, in the 18th century, it became a popular destination for elderly Cossacks, who wanted to live out their days on the banks of the great Dnieper River, and on the Chernecha Mountain, where, according to legend, a monastery stood in the past. The mountain remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklore, folklorist and ethnography, ethnographer.Taras Shevchenko in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. 1970-1979 (in English) His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language, though this is different from the language of his poems. He also wrote some works in Russian (nine novellas, a diary, and an autobiography). Shevchenko is also known for his many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaniv Nature Reserve
Kaniv Nature Reserve ( uk, Канівський природний заповідник) is a protected nature reserve of Ukraine that covers a portion of the right bank of the Dnieper River, and two floodplain islands in the river itself. The reserve is in the center of Ukraine, along the northeast edge of the Dnieper Upland. It was created to protect valuable forest-steppe and floodplain habitat. The site is known for an abundance of archaeological sites left by cultures back to the Paleolithic. The reserve is a unit of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and is located in Cherkasy Oblast. Topography The hills on the right bank (west side) of the Dnieper are forested and represent the majority of the reserve. The largest floodplain islands are the Serpentine Islands (116 ha) in the Kaniv Reservoir, Shelest Island (394 ha) in the Dnieper, and Kruglik Island in the Dnieper. There is a protective zone of 1,353 hectares around the reserve's borders. The reserve was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Veres
Hanna Ivanovna Veres ( uk, Га́нна Іва́нівна Ве́рес; 21 December 1928 – 11 June 2003) was a Ukrainian folk artist, embroiderer and weaver. She was the daughter of the artist and weaver, Maria Posobchuk, and the mother of artists Valentina and Elena Veres. She was awarded the Shevchenko National Prize with Anna Vasylashchuk in 1968. Biography Hanna Ivanovna Veres was born on 21 December 1928 in the village of Obukhovychi in the Vyshhorod district of Kyiv region. Her mother was the artist, Maria Posobchuk. Veres had two daughters, Valentina and , both of whom also became artists. According to historian, N M Nevega, Posobchuk taught her daughter many of her skills, which she in turned passed on to her daughters.Revega, N"Museum objects from the stock collection of the National Historical and Ethnographic Reserve" Pereyaslav "from the village of Obukhovychi, Ivankiv district, Kyiv region." ''Severshchyna in the history of Ukraine'' (2017). Ukrainian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihor Likhovy
Ihor Dmytrovych Likhovy ( uk, І́гор Дми́трович Ліхови́й, born 12 June 1957) is a Ukrainian statesman and public figure, diplomat, museologist, historian, culturologist, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine (2005–2006), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Belarus (2007–2010). In 1997, he was awarded the title Honored Worker of Ukraine Culture. Biography In 1989–2005 he was the director of the Shevchenko National Preserve in Kaniv, a researcher at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2004-2005). From October 5, 2005, to November 1, 2006 – Minister of culture of Ukraine. From 6 February 2007 to 24 February 2010 — Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Belarus. From December 17, 2014, to April 20, 2016 — First Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine. Also Ihor Likhovy is the author of numerous scientific works about Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryan Pinyak , pseudonym of Israeli-American artist Pinchas Burstein
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Maryan may refer to: * ''Maryan'' (film), a 2013 Tamil film ** ''Maryan'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack for the 2013 Tamil film * Maryan, Bulgaria, a village in Elena Municipality, Veliko Tarnovo Province, Bulgaria * Maryan, Iran (other) * M. Maryan, pseudonym of French novelist (1847-1927) * Maryan S. Maryan Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977), later known as Maryan S. Maryan, was a Polish-born Jewish post-expressionist painter. Early life Pinchas Burstein (Bursztyn) was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland, on January 1, 1927, the second son of an Orthodox Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
