“There, in Ukraine, where the Ros River flows through the valleys, among the mountains, in between the oak and linden forests, there is a great town of Bohuslav…” – with this extract from the story “Fisherman Panas Krut” by Ukrainian writer Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi, we opened the presentation of the exhibition “Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi: Bohuslav and Bohuslavshchyna in […]
Since the mid-1980s, local historian Petro Hohulia (born in 1961) has been studying the liberation movement in the Medvyn and Bohuslav regions. He discovered the names of the participants of the Medvyn Uprising (1919-1922), as well as OUN members. In 2014, together with Roman Koval, he published the book Medvyn Uprising, followed in 2023 by
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Throughout the decades of captivity in the USSR, Ukrainian diaspora activists continued to have an active community and public life abroad and contributed to culture. Dozens of choral, dance, and theatre groups are known to have portrayed the real Ukraine to the world, an alternative to the one the Kremlin allowed to be shown. All
On Friday, 3 November 2023, Bohuslavshchyna welcomed more than 50 guests – heads of culture departments from different cities of Kyiv region, led by Olena Zavalska, Director of the Kyiv Regional Centre for Folk Art, Cultural and Educational Work. The event was organised by Tetiana Kutsenko, Head of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports of
“When Hryhoriy returned from the camps, he was welcomed by the whole village. We have photos. He was so well-loved and respected. Many people joined resistance together with him, and he never betrayed anyone. They [the former members of an underground organization] lived a decent life until they were old,” recalls his sister Mariia
One of the exhibitions of the project “Religious Communities of Old Bohuslav” – “Engravings by Napoleon Orda: Roman Catholic Churches” – immerses the audience in the Roman Catholic world of the Bohuslavshchyna, where Poles lived since the 11th century. The exhibition is housed in the Bohuslav Roman Catholic Church of St. Wladyslaw, built in
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On 19 October 2023, we paid a visit to the Smartika private primary school in Kyiv city. This school has a great tradition of ending the school quarter with a charity fair. This time, representatives of the “Around Us.UA” NGO also took part in the fair. Traditional Ukrainian costumes of the Kyiv region (Kyivshchyna), recreated from
“Not far from Bohuslav, near the river Ros, in a long, twisted valley, there is the village of Semyhory. Nestled under one mountain, near a green meadow, in a deep hollow, was a huge cottage of Omelko Kaidash.” And right in that house, all sorts of dramas and passions were happening! This is one of
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In the traditional Ukrainian calendar, Intercession is a time of matchmaking and weddings. This charming and, to a certain extent, magical event, reconstructed from ethnographic sources, took place at the picturesque Kalynovyi Kushch estate in the village of Dmytrenky at the Feast of the Intercession. We are grateful to the hostess, Nina Nesterova, for her
On 9 September 2023, Bohuslav hosted the annual historical and cultural charity event “Portal through the Centuries: Old-World Bohuslav”. The event aimed to present to the general public the traditional Ukrainian culture of a century ago and reveal the life and coexistence of the community’s three largest ethnic groups: Jews, Ukrainians, and Poles. The festival
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