Liudmyla Obukhovska

The center of freethinking and freedom-loving (“House of a Poet”) attracted many generations of intellectuals to Koktebel. It welcomed innovation and originality. Since the beginning of the past century the latest literary and musical works were presented at Voloshin’s House,...

The working title was “Screen Tests. Classmates” and it won the Nika Award as the best feature film of the CIS and Baltic States. Its international premiere took place during the Rome Festival in 2012, then it was screened at the Moscow International Film Festival, and finally at the...

On March 5, within the framework of preparations for celebration of Kobzar’s 200th birth anniversary and the Maximilian Voloshin House-Museum 100th anniversary, the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Kyiv is launching an exhibit “Watercolors by Taras Shevchenko and Maximilian Voloshin...

“Baker’s dozen” of diverse creative teams who presented a vast range of theatrical genres is the special feature of the festival that is taking place in the Crimean land. “In a week time I got acquainted with a wide range of theater art and this provides food for thought...

Regulars of Voloshynska Kimmeria ten years ago when the festival of modern ethnic and jazz music first started did not quite believe that “Jazz Koktebel” would survive in the Crimean land, which is imbued with the spirit of high poetry. But here literature was combined in perfect...

Festivities in Feodosiia began with the laying of flowers and wreaths at the great artist’s grave, followed by a concert of musicians, including participants in the 19th international music festival “At Aiva­zovsky’s Home.” The Pioneer cinema theater showed the film Exposed to the Elements. I. K....

One of the four Ukrainian museums dedicated to the life and work of the world-famous poet Lesia Ukrainka is falling apart in the public eye. The museum in Yalta was opened on the 120th anniversary of the poet’s birthday, in 1991.“As far as the state of the house is concerned, we have been ringing...

The public are worried about the destiny of the world famous Yalta Film Studio, which was created in 1919 as a result of merging of private enterprises that belonged to Oleksandr Khanzhonkov and Yosyf Yermoliev, since the film production fell into decay in 1999. A total absence of financing led...

The Day has met with the actress who performs the leading part of Grandmother in the play of Lithuania’s Russian Drama Theater at the international festival “Theater. Chekhov. Yalta.” On stage Inga Mashkarina is a bag of nerves and a tyrant woman (the colorful character in...