The life of a Cossack

Cossacks

Black Sea Cossacks

Daniel Galachowski (Danylo Haliakhovskyi), The Triumph of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, 1708, engraving, detail, Warsaw National Museum.

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

Cossack weapons: Pernach, saber, powder magazine, two flintlocks, whip.

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

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

Church with carriages

Tarnovsky Vasyl (junior) in national costume

Cossack Mamai

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Ukrainians

Living Echo of the Cossack Elite: Georgiy Narbut in Paraska Apostol’s Kontusz with Kelep and Colonel MiloradovychIn the photograph, Georgiy Narbut stands in the Cossack hall of the Tarnovsky Museum (now a room of the Chernihiv Regional Library for Youth), fully immersed in a historical Ukrainian image. He is dressed in the kontusz of Paraska Apostol, daughter of Hetman Danylo Apostol, holding a kelep in his right hand, while to his right stands Colonel Mykhailo “Cannon” Miloradovych. This staged yet documentary scene shows Narbut not just studying Cossack-era artifacts, but literally wearing them, turning himself into a living embodiment of the Ukrainian noble-Cossack past.