Prague émigrés on an outing

Cover of a book by Mykola Veres, London, 1967Cover of a book by Mykola Veres (London, 1967): a seaside town and a sailing boat, burgundy print and hand lettering.

Cover of Leonid Poltava's book Ukrainski baliady, 1952Cover of Leonid Poltava's book Ukrainski baliady (Paris, 1952): a stylised stork in an ornamental knot, printed in burgundy.

Cover of Ivan Irliavskyi's book Holos sribnoi zemli, 1930sCover of Ivan Irliavskyi's poetry book Holos sribnoi zemli (Prague, 1930s): a girl in folk dress reaches toward the sun beside a wooden church.

Mykyta Shapoval in New York, 1927Mykyta Shapoval in a bowler hat and overcoat, with a walking stick, on a terrace with a palm. Handwritten on the photo: “New-York. March–April 1927”. From the Central State Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power of Ukraine (TsDAVO).

Olha and Mykyta Shapoval. Prague, 1922Studio portrait of Mykyta Shapoval and his wife Olha in winter clothes: fur hats, a muff, Olha wears a pince-nez. Prague, 1922 — the year Shapoval founded the Ukrainian Civic Committee in Czechoslovakia. From the Central State Archive of Supreme Bodies of Power of Ukraine (TsDAVO).

Avhustyn Voloshyn in a gardenAn elderly Avhustyn Voloshyn with a walking stick stands on a garden path. Probably during his Prague years (1939–1945).

Oksana Liaturynska, portraitPortrait of Oksana Liaturynska in a sweater, reproduced from a publication captioned “Oksana Liaturynska (1902–1970)”. Interwar period.

Cover of the collection Kniazha emal, 1941Cover of Oksana Liaturynska's poetry collection Kniazha emal (Prague, 1941), with an ornament in the style of old Rus enamel: a beast among plant motifs in green and red on a cream ground.

Group on a viewing terraceA group of young people poses on a stone viewing terrace. From the Prague Ukrainian émigré circle connected with Oksana Liaturynska. Interwar period; the people are not identified.

Oksana Liaturynska beside a sculpted bustOksana Liaturynska next to a sculpted bust of a moustached man, probably her portrait of Taras Shevchenko. The sculptor made portraits of Shevchenko, Petliura and Konovalets.

Oksana Liaturynska in a sculpture studioA group of sculpture students in work coats beside a plaster figure. Top left, a woman works on the figure — probably Oksana Liaturynska, who studied sculpture in Prague. 1930s.

Sofiia Rusova in a wicker chairSofiia Rusova sits in a wicker chair next to a house with shutters. Photo from the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation. Date and place are not established; probably the Prague period (1920s–1930s).

Ivan Zilynsky, portraitPortrait of the linguist and researcher of the Lemko dialects Ivan Zilynsky. After the Second World War he stayed in Prague as professor of Ukrainian and Belarusian at Charles University and died in Prague in 1952. The date of the photo is unknown. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Fedir Steshko, 1920Portrait of the musicologist and UPR Army colonel Fedir Steshko, 1920. In 1922 Steshko moved to Prague in connection with the creation of the Ukrainian Free University and headed the chair of music history at the Drahomanov Institute. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks with Soviet Russia, 1918The Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks with Soviet Russia, 1918. Seated (left to right): Slivinskyi, Shelukhin, Doroshenko, Eichelmann; standing: Bilinskyi and Mishkovskyi. Serhii Shelukhin headed the delegation; later he lived in Prague, and Otto Eichelmann taught at the Ukrainian Free University. Photo from Oko magazine; source: Wikimedia Commons.

Serhii Shelukhin, 1918Portrait of the lawyer and diplomat Serhii Shelukhin, 1918, when he was Minister of Justice of the Ukrainian People's Republic and headed the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Soviet Russia. In emigration Shelukhin lived in Prague, chaired the Ukrainian Committee in Czechoslovakia and died in Prague in 1938. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Oleksandr Kolessa, 1937Portrait of the literary scholar and linguist Oleksandr Kolessa, 24 May 1937. Kolessa lived in Prague from 1921; as the first rector of the Ukrainian Free University in Prague he opened it with an inaugural lecture on 23 October 1921. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Oksana LiaturynskaPortrait of the poet and sculptor Oksana Liaturynska. From 1924 she lived in Prague, studied at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts, and her collections Husla (1938) and Kniazha emal (1941) appeared there. The exact date of the photograph is unknown. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Avhustyn Voloshyn, portraitPortrait of Avhustyn Voloshyn, a Greek Catholic priest, prime minister of the autonomous government and president of Carpatho-Ukraine. After the Hungarian occupation of 1939 he lived in Prague and worked at the Ukrainian Free University; in May 1945 he was arrested in Prague. The date of the photo is unknown. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Sofiia Rusova, 1934Sofiia Rusova in 1934, during her Prague years. From 1923 she lived in Prague, taught pedagogy at the Drahomanov Institute and headed the National Council of Ukrainian Women. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Ivan Kulets. Woman, before 1940Portrait of a woman by Ivan Kulets (Jan Kulec), a Ukrainian painter from Galicia who stayed in Prague after the First World War. Kulets taught at the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Prague; in 1932 the studio was registered in his name. The painting is dated before 1940. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Mykyta Shapoval, 1920sPortrait of Mykyta Shapoval, a member of the Central Rada and a leader of the Ukrainian emigration in Czechoslovakia. The photo is dated to the 1920s, when Shapoval headed the Ukrainian Civic Committee in Prague, which founded the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady. Source: Wikimedia Commons.