Book Mykyta Shapoval: cover

Request to send publications to Prague (M. Hruchevski, Praha)Text fragment thanking publishers and asking them to send publications for the institute's library to: M. Hruchevski, Praha, VII, Dobrovského 28.

Text on moving the institute from Geneva to PragueText fragment on why, because of the expensive Swiss currency, the work of the Ukrainian Sociological Institute and its library were moved from Geneva to Prague.

Group photo with Oleksandr LototskyiGroup photo of men in a garden, one in an embroidered shirt and one in uniform. From materials on Oleksandr Lototskyi.

Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, portraitPortrait of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in glasses, with a grey beard. 1920s – early 1930s.

Oleksandr Lototskyi, signed portraitStudio portrait of a young bearded Oleksandr Lototskyi in a dark suit, with his signature below.

Oleksandr Lototskyi by a houseOleksandr Lototskyi in a hat and coat, with a walking stick, by a wooden house.

Oleksandr Lototskyi in a parkOleksandr Lototskyi in a hat and coat holding flowers, in a park.

Berezovskyi and Mozart: passage on the Bologna examinationsPassage from Fedir Steshko's study: Mozart passed the Bologna music academy examination in 1770 and Berezovskyi in 1771, so there was no contest between them.

Oleksandr Lototskyi among friendsA group of people on an outing; among them is Oleksandr Lototskyi. Interwar period.

Berezovskyi and Mozart: passage on the rivalry legendPassage from Fedir Steshko's study on the groundlessness of the legend of rivalry between Berezovskyi and Mozart, with footnotes.

Berezovskyi and Mozart: passage on the tasks of musicologyPassage from Fedir Steshko's study on the duty of Ukrainian musicology to research Maksym Berezovskyi's biography and his studies in Italy.

Fedir Steshko. Berezovskyi and Mozart, Prague, 1942Title page of Fedir Steshko's study Berezovskyi and Mozart (from the history of 18th-century Ukrainian music), an offprint from the Scholarly Collection of the Ukrainian Free University (Prague, 1942).

Seal of the Ukrainian Free University in PragueRound seal-emblem with the Latin inscription Universitas Ucrainensis Pragensis and the profile of a helmeted warrior. From publications of the Ukrainian Free University, where Fedir Steshko taught.

Oleksandr Kolessa with familyFamily photo in an interior with a kilim: an elderly bearded man — probably Oleksandr Kolessa — and three women.

Participants of the congress of Ukrainian writers in Lviv, 1898Participants of the congress of Ukrainian writers in Lviv marking the centenary of Ivan Kotliarevskyi's Eneida, 1898. Among them are Oleksandr Kolessa and Ivan Franko.

Title page of the anthology Akordy, Lviv, 1903Title page of Akordy, an anthology of Ukrainian lyric poetry since Shevchenko's death, compiled by Ivan Franko with illustrations by Yulian Pankevych (Lviv, 1903). It includes poems by Oleksandr Kolessa.

Oleksandr Kolessa. Poem V svit za ochiPage with Oleksandr Kolessa's poem V svit za ochi (Into the Wide World), with an ornamental headpiece, probably from the anthology Akordy (1903).

Cover of Nova Khata, Lviv, 1930, no. 6Cover of the sixth issue of Nova Khata (Lviv, 1930, sixth year): large lettering with stylised figures on an orange ground.

Cover of Nova Khata, 1938Cover of Nova Khata, 1938: two figures in folk dress flanking a geometric embroidery pattern, in a red ornamental frame.

Nova Khata, no. 1, June 1925: To Our Readers!First page of the first issue of Nova Khata (Lviv, June 1925), a magazine of fashion and home economics, with the opening address To Our Readers!

Cover of the magazine Nova Khata with a female figureGraphic cover of the Lviv magazine Nova Khata: a stylised woman carrying buckets on a yoke among flowers in pots.

Group of women from the Nova Khata circleA group of women at a table — probably the editors or contributors of the Lviv magazine Nova Khata.

Portrait of a woman from the Nova Khata eraPortrait of a woman in glasses and a light blouse at a desk. From materials on the Lviv magazine Nova Khata, the first Ukrainian magazine for women.

Book Mykyta Shapoval: spread with the New York photoSpread of the book on Mykyta Shapoval with the 1927 New York photo and portraits.

Book Mykyta Shapoval: spread with a group photoSpread of the book on Mykyta Shapoval with a group photo and archival portraits.

Book Mykyta Shapoval: pages with a family photo and a documentSpread of the book on Mykyta Shapoval with a family photo and an archival document.

Book Mykyta Shapoval. Outline of a Life. Biography. Letters: spread with portraitTitle spread of the book of Mykyta Shapoval's memoirs published by displaced people from Donetsk region, with his portrait.

Cover of the monthly Za yednist natsii, no. IX–XCover of the monthly of literature, art and public life Za yednist natsii (For Unity of Nation), no. IX–X: lettering with a trident and baroque ornament.

Cover of Mykola Lysenko's children's operetta Koza-derezaCover of an edition of Mykola Lysenko's children's operetta Koza-dereza: an old man with a goat by a white cottage, in bright colours.

Cover of Vasyl Bobynskyi's Nich kokhanniaCover of Vasyl Bobynskyi's book Nich kokhannia (Night of Love): lovers under a tree and a starry sky, printed in red and black.

Robert Lisovskyi in scout uniformRobert Lisovskyi in a brimmed hat and uniform shirt with a tie.

Cover of Pavlo Tychyna's Soniashni klarnety, Berlin–Kyiv, 1922Cover of Pavlo Tychyna's collection Soniashni klarnety (Berlin–Kyiv, 1922): a geometric ornament in red and black.

Scout camp: a man by a tentA man in scout uniform and hat stands by a tent with small flags. From the board on Robert Lisovskyi.

Landscape with a tree (from the Oles Honchar board)Black-and-white photograph of a landscape with a large tree above a slope. Origin and place not established.

Ornamental motif (from the Oles Honchar board)A graphic ornament in a triangular form with scrolls on a grey ground. Origin not established.

Oles Honchar in his studyOles Honchar in his study by the writing desk, a landscape painting on the wall. Photo from the website of the Shevchenko National Prize Committee.

Page of Na perelomi on the break-up of the empire, 1920Text fragment from Na perelomi (1920) on the Supreme Council's view of the break-up of the Russian state and the independence of its former parts, with a highlighted passage.

Cover of the journal Na perelomi, no. 1, March 1920Cover of the first issue of Na perelomi, a journal of politics, literature and art edited by Oleksandr Oles (Vienna, March 1920).

International Political Review, Na perelomi, 1920Part of the International Political Review column signed Spectator in Na perelomi (1920), the journal edited by Oleksandr Oles.

Oleksandr Oles. Poem To T. Masaryk, Na perelomi, 1920Oleksandr Oles's poem To T. Masaryk on a page of the journal Na perelomi (1920), a poetic tribute to Czechoslovak president Tomáš Masaryk.