Rare early printed books mentioning Ukraine to be displayed in Kyiv
The Ukraine WOW NGO reported this to Ukrinform.
Six rare early printed editions from the 17th and 18th centuries will be shown for the first time. Each of these works is an invaluable source of information about Ukraine of that era, covering military affairs, daily life, education, culture, and religion.
Excerpts from these old books were voiced by prominent cultural and public figures, including Taras Chmut (head of the Come Back Alive foundation), writer and soldier Serhii Zhadan, Andrii Luzan (founder of Lions on Jeeps show and soldier), volunteer Serhii Sternenko, traveler Anton Ptushkin, and historian Timothy Snyder. Their voices bring to life texts by engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan (1651), Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire (1731), officer and diplomat Pierre Chevalier (1663), traveler Joseph Marshall (1772), pastor and historian Johann Herbinius (1675), and mathematician and cartographer Andreas Cellarius (1659).
The project’s consultant was Valentyna Bochkovska, director of the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine.
The originals for the exhibition were provided by the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine and private collectors.
The rare books and audio excerpts from them will be available to the public starting September 26.
The exhibition is organized by the NGO Ukraine WOW together with Ukrzaliznytsia. The project’s main partners are Ukraine WOW’s strategic partner, the Avrora retail chain, as well as ROZETKA, the country’s largest online marketplace, and Visa.
Part of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to support the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, the Museum of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Museum of Natural History at the NAS of Ukraine, the Cherkasy City Archaeological Museum of the Middle Dnipro Region, the National Museum of the History of Ukraine, and the Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum named after V. V. Tarnovsky.
The exhibition will run from September 26 to November 9 at the exhibition space on Track 14 of Kyiv Central Station.
