The bookstore, which has promised to deal in Ukrainian-language books and magazines only, is now settling down on its premises at 22 Lychakivska Street. “We have to take care of the spiritual component of our urban community’s life, so we resolved to enable Leopolitans to buy Ukrainian books in one more place,” Lviv mayor Andrii Sadovy said, referring to the Bohdan-Ihor Antonych Ukrainian bookstore opened a few years ago at 33 Bandery Street. The grand presentation of the bookstore will be held in Lviv on January 20. It has already stocked around 8,000 books for its first patrons, as the Lviv City Council’s press service told The Day. All issues of Den’s Library are in stock, so one will be able to buy there “Subversive Literature” collection, notable as one of the best books of last year’s Book Forum, and other Den’s bestsellers. The store will also house an art gallery, providing venue for exhibitions of paintings or, say, photographs. The bookstore, named after the leader of the Ruthenian Triad and initiator of The Mermaid of the Dniester anthology’s publication Markian Shashkevych (1811-43), will open thanks to the support provided by the Lviv Regional Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Lviv Shashkevych Commission, National Union of Writers of Ukraine, Ukrainian League of Philanthropists, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Commission for Youth and the Blazheiovsky Foundation for National and Spiritual Revival, named after historian and artist Fr. Dmytro Blazheiovsky.
