Tatar village on the southern coast of Crimea in the moonlight

Water-NymphsHalyna Mazepa's first year in Venezuela. She painted these Ukrainian water-nymphs in Caracas, ten thousand kilometres from the river they came out of.

The FortressLate Khmeliuk — the bright contrasting colour he used for flowers and for stone alike.

Landscape at TaversThe original title is Paysage à Tavers. Tavers is a small town on the Loire.

LandscapePost-war Paris. By then Khmeliuk had been living in France for twenty years.

ChateauThe French provinces seen by a man who arrived here from the Ukrainian war of independence of 1917–1920.

Landscape with a TowerKhmeliuk's first Parisian decade. In 1932 he held a solo exhibition at the «Young Europe» gallery.

VeniceThree years before his death. Krychevsky died in Paris in 1961, having never returned to Ukraine.

The Seine Embankment. ParisAfter America he came back to the same water he had painted twenty-one years earlier.

Canada, OntarioThe same transatlantic journey. Canada was then home to one of the largest Ukrainian communities in the world.

New YorkAt fifty-eight Krychevsky crossed the ocean for the first time. In the same year he also painted Canada.

The EmbankmentWater and a quayside — the subject Krychevsky returned to all his life, from Paris to Venice.

Venice. The Rialto BridgeVenice was Krychevsky's second city after Paris. He returned to it again in 1956, and in 1958.

Brittany. FranceThe first years after the war — the point at which the Ukrainian emigration understood for good that there would be no going back.

The Outskirts of ParisNot the tourists' Paris but its edges — what a person who lives there sees, rather than one who is visiting.

The Seine Embankment. ParisThe Seine would be Krychevsky's principal subject for twenty-five years; he painted it in any weather.

A Courtyard in ProvenceKrychevsky's third year in Paris. The south of France would become one of the standing routes of his life.

Bazaar in UzhhorodThe last Ukrainian town in Mykola Krychevsky's life. In July 1923 he left for Prague; from 1929 he lived in Paris and never returned.

1776 map of the Crimean peninsula

An inhabitant of Tatar Crimea, 1700

Crimean Khan Akhmet Giray (1519)

Ukrainian Karaites

Participants of the Kurultai. In the center are representatives of the Bakhchisarai Muslim Organization led by Sh. Gasprinskaya.

Bride's room. Exposition of the National Museum of the Crimean Tatars, 1920's (Bakhchysarai)

Kapskhor in Crimea: Evening Occupations of the Tatars

Crimean Tatar Ornek

Crimean Tatar women

Crimean Tatar cemetery in Bakhchysarai. Photo source: Holos Krymu newspaper.

The village of Uskut after the deportation of the Crimean Tatars, 1945.

Deported Crimean Tatars in a special settlement in the city of Krasnovishersk (now in Perm Krai, Russia), 1948. Photo source: Association of Muslims of Ukraine.