Yevhen Kravs

Main reading room of the Research Library of Ivan Franko Lviv National University is hosting a one-book exhibition of the 1st edition of Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar (1840). The event is timed to the 200th birth anniversary of our classic poet. The anniversary events also included review of book...

The exposition displays portraits of global-scale stars. Audiences can see the images of Montserrat Caballe, Bjork, Sting, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Marlene Dietrich, Edith Piaf, Viktor Tsoi, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, and others.The exhibit is particular in that the artist does not express a...

Over the 75 years the ensemble has become a calling card of our state’s high culture, having acquired popularity among the admirers of folklore and modern choreography. The ensemble’s repertoire includes old and modern dances of various Ukrainian oblasts as well as the dances of other...

Lviv is hosting an ice symposium. Leopolitan ice sculptors, led by Myroslav Dedyshyn, benefited from the winter’s return to the city. Ice sculptures are being erected in the Rynok, the Lion’s City’s oldest square (“the Lion’s City” is the literal translation of...

The “Celebration of Wine and Cheese” coincided with celebrations devoted to the 70th anniversary of the legendary Beatle John Lennon. Both events took place in the inner court of the Lviv city hall. According to Ilko Lemko, the president of The Beatles fan club, Lviv chapter, the...

Photo by the author The Hutsul town of Kosiv is a true center of folk craftsmen: inimitable wood carvers, potters, weavers, and embroiders live and work here. Famous Kosiv ceramics is so well-known all over the world that collectors from different countries come to the local market to make...

This may raise a few eyebrows, but it is true: Hetman Ivan Mazepa was the protagonist of one of 17 “oral documentary books” that, for over 23 years, was part of the repertoire of the Kyiv State Historical Portrait Theater. Ihor Shvedov, a Russian writer and theatrical figure, created these...

The restoration of the historical and cultural preserve “Hetman’s Capital” in Baturyn is, undoubtedly, a significant event for every Ukrainian who has at least a vague idea about the importance of the Nov. 2, 1708 disaster for our homeland. The Russian troops were led by “His Serene Highness”...

No one in the entire 20th century or before, between, and after the two world wars ever succeeded in carrying out a project comparable to the one that was organized by a humble fifth-year Ukrainian fashion design student. “There has never been a show like this in Lviv,” said Halyna Zubchenko, a...

It took Roman Bonchuk, a young artist from Ivano-Frankivsk, a whole year to complete his monumental painting Megahistory of Ukraine. The titanic canvas, measuring 30 x 5 meters, has every right to be entered in the Book of Records. According to Bonchuk, he used over 150 kilograms of paint for his...