St. George's Skete of Svyatogirsk Holy Dormition Lavra of Donetsk Diocese of Ukrainian Orthodox Church was built in 1862. It is a wooden structure. In 1867 the building housed a public school for forty boys, and was eventually turned into a parochial school. A hermitage church dedicated to the martyr St George the Victory-Bearer was recently built on the site, based on the original model of the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God on the Nerl.
A statue of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, who served as Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host from 1616-1622. The statue is located in Manhush (Donetsk Oblast).
A gravestone from the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv. The cemetery was founded in 1786 but the oldest gravestone among the approximately 400,000 burials dates to 1675.
Nova Kakhovka is a young town in the north of Tavria, built in the 1950s for the builders of the Kakhovka hydroelectric complex. All the buildings here were built to a unified plan, constructed in haste, and they turned out to be monotonous and unexceptional. Then Hryhorii Dovzhenko, an artist and a follower of the Boichukist school, came to the town. Together with his colleagues, Dovzhenko created 80 unique carved panels which would come to decorate the walls of every building and change the face of the town. Later the Soviet press would criticise Dovzhenko for “architectural excesses”. Today his pieces are considered to be an artistic phenomenon which contemporaries named “stone vyshyvankas”. These days, the ornaments are under threat — not just from the passage of time, but from building insulation and the “modernisation” of the facades as well. Thanks to the actions of local activists, however, the “stone vyshyvankas” are gradually being restored to the town.
The materials of the exhibition tell about the emergence and combat activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volyn, about the commanders and insurgent soldiers, among whom was the graphic artist Nil Khasevych, whose military graphics are presented in the museum.
"Concert" is a painting dedicated to the importance of art and artistic work. It depicts musicians performing in a secret or underground location to escape from the ideological principles of socialist realism.
