KYIV. On Great Kobzar’s birthday anniversary His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr donated to the National Taras Shevchenko Museum an exemplar of facsimile edition of the Peresopnytsia Gospels and several rarities from his Shevchenko collection

  On March 9, the 196^th birthday anniversary of Taras Shevchenko the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church  called to the National Taras Shevchenko Museum (Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, 12), to which he donated a sample of the facsimile edition of the Peresopnytsia Gospels and 9 rare editions from his Shevchenko collection.   

Addressing those attending, the Archpastor greeted everyone on the birthday anniversary of the great Ukrainian artist and emphasized the significance of his personality for our state and its people. 

"Taras Shevchenko is respected not only in Ukraine, but in Europe and all over the world. It all testifies to the fact that the love of Great Kobzar of our nation is alive.  Good luck to our country, good luck to this museum, and may the memory of the gifted talented people as Taras Shevchenko be carried throughout the whole life.  May God send him the heavenly Kingdom, and we'll be more attentive to his creations, where the answers to various questions of the human concern can be found", His Beatitude noted.

In her turn, director of the museum Nataliya Klymenko thanked the Primate of our Church for the "precious treasure of our people" and assured that this gift would occupy a well-deserved place in the exposition of the National Museum. Also in the memory of the visit to the museum His Beatitude was offered as a present the seven-volume edition of Taras Shevchenko's works.   

By the way, in 1845, staying in Pereyaslav, Taras Shevchenko had a chance to get acquainted with the Peresopnytsia Gospels, whereof he made notes in his shortwrite.  

At the end, the Primate got acquainted with the materials presented in the exhibition halls.  

The museum collection consists of the unique valuables: the originals of Shevchenko's paintings, the documents of his life and creative work, handwritten copies of his poetry, rare photographs of the poet and his friends, first prints of Shevchenko's works with his signature, almost all the editions of the poet's works and the literature about him, ranging from the lifetime editions to the modern home and foreign editions. In 24 halls more than 4 thousands of exhibits are placed.

The significant part of the exhibition materials is available for the visitors only once a year - on the very birthday of Taras Shevchenko. Among this part of works the special attention of Metropolitan Volodymyr was given to several portraits written by Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko in the lesser motherland of our Archpastor, in his native Markovtsi village.      


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