fragment of "Musical Grammar" by M. Dyletsky.A native of Kyiv, Mykola Dyletsky is called the creator of the Western school of partes music, which gave the world a number of outstanding composers. He wrote the theoretical work “Musical Grammar” — a monument of the Ukrainian Baroque — which was published exactly 350 years ago in Vilna (now Vilnius). In it, Dyletsky explained in detail the technical features of partes singing and composition. And what is important! In this work, he was the first in the world to describe the circle of fifths — as a graphic diagram by which a musician can trace the harmonic connections between all major and minor keys of 12 notes. For composers, this work made it easier to write music. This is really worth paying attention to… The work “The Resurrection Canon” by Mykola Dyletsky. Please listen.

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.

First Edition Hans Christian Andersen Prygun The Jumpers Heorhiy Narbut

Page from Hans C. Andersen, Heorhiy Narbut Prygun / The Jumpers

A Horse-Lightning

10th Street Meat Market, New York

Amecameca, Mexico

Rainbow

French town

Portrait of a man

Stroudsburg

Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn

Portrait of Mrs Morimoto and her son

Autumn

Fourth Ave Book Shop New York

Woman in yellow scarf

Peasant Woman with Green Cow

Children of Stalingrad

Pasture

Reading

Mexico Rancho

Barbershop

The Old Man and the Dog

The Train (also known as The Railroad)

Family Couple (also known as Woman with Horse)

The life of a Cossack

Florida

The Yellow Mountain

Futuristic Head

Fisherman, Bonin

Japan Fisherman

Red Noon

Studies of female figuresMarie Bashkirtseff, Studies of female figures, 1860-1884, graphite, © The Trustees of the British Museum

Portrait of a Woman Sitting Face to Face, with a Cigarette in Her Right Hand,Marie Bashkyrtseva, “Portrait of a Woman Sitting Face to Face, with a Cigarette in Her Right Hand” drawing on paper, 24.5 x 18.5 cm, Musée d’Orsay, the work is kept in the Louvre Museum, © Photo: RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Michel Hurtado

Intimacy: A Young Woman Half-Lying on a SofaMarie Bashkyrtseva, “Intimacy: A Young Woman Half-Lying on a Sofa”, drawing on black stone, 28.5 x 25.7 cm, Musée d’Orsay, in the collection of the Louvre, © Photo: RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Thierry Le Mage

SpringMaria Bashkirtseva, Spring, 1884, oil on canvas, 215.5 x 199.5 cm, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, © Artepics / Alamy Stock Photos

UmbrellaMaria Bashkyrtseva, "Umbrella", 1883, oil on canvas, 93 x 74 cm, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, © Artepics / Alamy Stock Photos

Portrait of Countess Dina de Toulouse-LautrecMarie Bashkirtseff, Portrait of Countess Dina de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1883, pastel, 61 x 50 cm, Musée d’Orsay, © Photo: RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski

Ukrainian Princess Olga