Water-Nymphs

The FortressLate Khmeliuk — the bright contrasting colour he used for flowers and for stone alike.

Landscape at TaversThe original title is Paysage à Tavers. Tavers is a small town on the Loire.

LandscapePost-war Paris. By then Khmeliuk had been living in France for twenty years.

ChateauThe French provinces seen by a man who arrived here from the Ukrainian war of independence of 1917–1920.

Landscape with a TowerKhmeliuk's first Parisian decade. In 1932 he held a solo exhibition at the «Young Europe» gallery.

VeniceThree years before his death. Krychevsky died in Paris in 1961, having never returned to Ukraine.

The Seine Embankment. ParisAfter America he came back to the same water he had painted twenty-one years earlier.

Canada, OntarioThe same transatlantic journey. Canada was then home to one of the largest Ukrainian communities in the world.

New YorkAt fifty-eight Krychevsky crossed the ocean for the first time. In the same year he also painted Canada.

The EmbankmentWater and a quayside — the subject Krychevsky returned to all his life, from Paris to Venice.

Venice. The Rialto BridgeVenice was Krychevsky's second city after Paris. He returned to it again in 1956, and in 1958.

Brittany. FranceThe first years after the war — the point at which the Ukrainian emigration understood for good that there would be no going back.

The Outskirts of ParisNot the tourists' Paris but its edges — what a person who lives there sees, rather than one who is visiting.

The Seine Embankment. ParisThe Seine would be Krychevsky's principal subject for twenty-five years; he painted it in any weather.

A Courtyard in ProvenceKrychevsky's third year in Paris. The south of France would become one of the standing routes of his life.

Bazaar in UzhhorodThe last Ukrainian town in Mykola Krychevsky's life. In July 1923 he left for Prague; from 1929 he lived in Paris and never returned.

Father Mykola Lysko - one of the first priests who arrived in the Ukrainian community of the first settlers of the state of Paraná in Brazil

A man from the Ukrainian community, the first immigrants in Brazil, demonstrates the art of having many children on the doorstep of his house

The first streets of Ukrainian emigrants in Brazil

Wedding family photo of the first immigrants from Ukraine in Brazil

Tree stumps in the first Ukrainian settlements in Brazil

The Gazdas are ready to explore the vast expanses of Brazil, which will later become the state of Paraná and the city of Prudentópolis.

Construction of the first roads in the state of Paraná, in the Brazilian jungle, by Ukrainian immigrants

Brazilian gentlemen from Ukraine in nice suits

Ukrainian farmers have greatly improved the Paraná region in terms of agro-industry, and this trend continues to this day.

The first Brazilian harvests of the first Ukrainians on the continent in wild conditions

Basilian priests Tiko and Diva

The first printing press in Prudentopolis

Father Athanasius. The grand opening of the new printing house in 1938.

Father Athanasius, 1st Ukrainian Church

Ostapiv Veselka Kom Ephraim Krevey

Church with carriages

Seminary of Mercia Guimaraes

Sister of Josaphat I. Raphael

Sister Josaphat College is expanding

Church of St. Basil the Blessed in Prudentopolis

Church of Hope Ternoski

Wedding of Anair Lopez

Dionysius Opushkevych Ukrainian Club

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