Curatorial tour of the exhibition from the museum's collection: ".. In the Glimmer of the Dearest Faces..." (The Circle of Vasyl Stus).

The National Museum of Literature of Ukraine invites you to a curatorial tour of the exhibition from the museum’s collection: "...In the Glimmer of the Dearest Faces..." (The Circle of Vasyl Stus).

The exhibition features materials about the inner circle of Vasyl Stus — his family and the "mala shopta" (small group) of the Sixtiers, which he joined in 1963, becoming one of the leaders of the Ukrainian resistance movement of the 1960s–1980s. The memoirs of Levko Lukyanenko, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Yevhen Sverstyuk, Mykhailyna Kotsyubynska, Svitlana Kyrychenko, Mykola Plakhotnyuk, Mikhail Heifets, Roman Korohodskyi, Les Tanyuk, Vasyl Ovsiyenko, Mykola Horbal, and other dissidents reveal the various facets of Stus’s rich personality as both a man and a fighter.

Among the unique exhibits are the poet's personal belongings, his diploma as a laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, lifetime publications of his poetry in the Paris-based "Ukrainian Herald" and the Munich-based journal "Suchasnist," as well as manuscripts by Ivan Svitlychnyi and Yevhen Sverstyuk.

The highlights of the exhibition include a lifetime portrait of Vasyl Stus holding a book of Rilke's poetry by Viktor Zaretskyi (painted just two weeks before the poet's arrest in 1972), a portrait of the poet by Lyubov Minenko, and a sketch for the painting "My People, I Shall Yet Return to You" by Tymish Lyashchuk.

To book a tour, call: 235-12-96.