Sofiia Rusova in a wicker chair

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).

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.

Prague émigrés on an outingA group of young people on a rocky slope during an outing. From the circle of the Ukrainian emigration in Prague, where Oksana Liaturynska lived. Interwar period; the people are not identified.

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.

Family by a house with bicycles and horsesFamily and guests by a wooden house: bicycles, a horse and cart, children on the porch. From the Lindfors–Rusov family archive. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Family on the porch of a houseA large family sits on porch steps with carved railings. From the Lindfors–Rusov family archive, early 20th century. The people are not identified. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Family photo under a portraitWomen and children of the family sit below a large portrait of a bearded man. From the Lindfors–Rusov family archive, late 19th century. The people are not identified. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Nina Oleksandrivna Lindfors as a childLittle Nina Oleksandrivna Lindfors in a light dress and a wide hat. The Lindfors family, into which Sofiia Rusova was born. Early 20th century. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Group photo with Olha LindforsLarge group photo in a garden: women in white dresses seated in front, men standing behind. Among them is Olha Lindfors of Sofiia Rusova's family. Early 20th century. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Old wooden house with a balconyA wooden house with an attic floor and a balcony in a garden. From the Lindfors–Rusov family archive; probably one of the family estates. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Mykola and Borys Kaminer in uniformTwo young men in greatcoats and caps — Mykola and Borys, sons of Olha Oleksandrivna (née Lindfors) and Borys Kaminer. Probably during the First World War. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Lindfors in Mongolia, 1963Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Lindfors (1917–1994, second from left) with companions in a yurt. Mongolia, 1963. A member of the Lindfors family into which Sofiia Rusova was born. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Kateryna Oleksandrivna LindforsStudio portrait of Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lindfors (1876–1947), of the Lindfors family into which Sofiia Rusova was born. Time and place unknown. From the archive of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation.

Group photo from Sofiia Rusova's circleGroup photo of men and women in a garden by an ivy-covered wall. Kept in the historical photo album of the Sofiia Rusova Charitable Foundation. Event, date and people are not established.

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.

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.