Beginning of 20 century

Bridesmaid from the area of Gródek Jagielloński in Volhynia, Poland (now Horodok, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).

The woman is shown wearing a traditional Ukrainian floral crown, known as a vinok. Her attire also includes a multi-strand beaded necklace and a traditional garment. The photograph is from a series and is dated between 1925 and 1939. The title of the work is "Druhna z okolic Gródka Jagiellońskiego na Wołyniu", which translates to "Bridesmaid from the area of Gródek Jagielloński in Volhynia".

Beginning of 20 century

Bridesmaid from the area of Gródek Jagielloński in Volhynia, Poland (now Horodok, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine).

Lesya Ukrainka in her youth with flowersStudio portrait of young Lesya Ukrainka: in a dark embroidered blouse with a dense floral pattern and wide white sleeves with geometric openwork embroidery, wearing a beaded necklace and an embroidered ribbon at the throat. She leans her left arm on a studio pedestal where a bouquet of wildflowers rests. One of the best-known photographs of the poet as a young woman.

Ruthenians

Ruthenian women.

Wedding family photo of the first immigrants from Ukraine in Brazil

"The Parisian Woman", portrait of Irma, model at the Académie Julian (1882)

Man against the background of mountains

Couple in festive traditional attire

Tatar Children's School

Women and girls, possibly dressed to celebrate a wedding, in Ukraine's Pavlohrad Region in 1909

A village scene from Ukraine's Volyn region in 1909

A wedding ceremony is immortalized in a print found in Fedir Vovk's personal archive.

Village houses in Ukraine in the late 1800s or early 1900s

Ukrainian peasants in the Kyiv region in the late 1800s or early 1900s

Verkhovyna 1

Verkhovyna 11

Verkhovyna 10

Verkhovyna 8

Verkhovyna 7

Verkhovyna 6

Verkhovyna 5

Verkhovyna 4

Verkhovyna 3

Verkhovyna 2

Gazda from Verkhovyna

Olena Prakhova

10s

Olga Adrianivna Prakhova in the "Mac" costume and Laura Arthurivna Dugottier in the "Vesta" costume.Photo by Franz de Meser. Documentary and archival fund of the National Art Museum of Ukraine. F. 17 (Mykola Murashka Foundation). Unit coll. 3. Ark. 219

Miklouho-Maclay during his trip to the Red Sea

Macluho-Maclay in a tropical suit

Macluho-Maclay in the tropics

Macluho-Maclay arrives on the island

Miklouho-Maclay, Portrait

Myklukha-Maklai Mykola Mykolayovych, Malay Peninsula

Ernst Haeckel with his assistant, Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, in the Canary Islands

Ukrainian ethnic house interiorThe walls in the house were sometimes decorated with plant ornaments. Sometimes our ancestors added here images of birds - roosters, jackdaws, magpies. These drawings were made with oil paints.