At the beginning of cinema stood Ukrainian mechanic Yosyp Timchenko together with physicist Mykola Lyubimov, who two years before the discovery of the Lumiere brothers, developed a “snail” – a jumping mechanism.In 1893, films shot using a kinescope were already being shown in Odessa, thus outpacing the Lumières. But Timchenko failed to patent his device. His kinescope is still stored in the storage rooms of the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. Timchenko was also the author of automatic meteorological, physical and astronomical instruments, for which he received awards at world exhibitions. He participated in the creation of the first model of the Freudenberg automatic telephone exchange.

Portret Marie Bashkirtseff

Marie Bashkirtseff on a chair

Portrait of Mariebashkirtsef with a puppy

Mariya Bashkirczeva in a hat

Maria Bashkyrtseva paints a portrait in the studio

Spring

Group “Renovation Byzantine” of the first waveThe “Renovation Bizantine” group of the first draft – Mykhailo Boychuk (sitting below, in the center); together with the master – Helene Schramm, Mykola Kasperovich, T. Nalepinsky, Sophia Baudouin-de-Courtenay, future wife Sophia Nalepinska, Sophia Segnot, Yanina Levakovska; Paris, 1910

A photo of Mykhailo Boychuk in the studio with an unknown work

Mykhailo Boychuk against the backdrop of an unknown monumental mural

Mykhailo Boychuk against the backdrop of the picturesque composition "Harvest Festival" (the paintings have not survived) for the Kharkiv Chervonozavodsky Theater