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    Lesya Ukrainka

    Postcard from Lesya Ukrainka to her brother Mykola and sisters Oksana and Isidora

    I'm already leaving for Switzerland. I'll write tomorrow or the day after. My plans are all the same as in the letter to my father. I feel well, otherwise I wouldn't have gone. Write to me poste restante, because it's boring without news from you. I kiss everyone. I don't write to Lily and mother, because I don't know where they are. Lesya Lili did write, but mother doesn't like postcards, and there's no way to write a letter now. I really ask my father to come to terms with Kobylyanska's essays. Were they accepted by the "K[iev] Star[aryna]"? The author asks, but I don't know.

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    Szewczenko School (Shevchenko School). Vita. Canada. 1921. Oseredok
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    Sonia Delaunay wearing Casa Sonia creations, Madrid, c.1920
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    Vasyl Yermylov
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    Interior of the mansion of Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko.
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    Boys from the Plast hut ‹The Winged Bunker› 1947. Bavaria
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    Modest Menczynski - Lohenrin in the opera Lohenrin > by Richard Wagner. 1909
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