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OUR LIFE M O N TH LY, published by Ukrainian National Women’s League of America Preserving Our Heritage For over 1000 years U kraine was the victim of innum erable assaults as well as the u n w illin g battleground fo r wars between her im m ediate neighbors. F rom the Princely E r a to the tim e of Mazeppa, the loss o f U k rain ian lives was accompanied by the a l most complete obliteration of the cultural achievements of th a t period. F rom the 18th to the 19th centuries, under various occu pants, U k rain ian lands went through a period of com parative peace. D u rin g th is tim e there was a rebirth of U k rain ia n cul ture in the architecture of churches and monasteries, in painting, sculpture and folk arts. Archives, libraries and a rt col lections reappeared. Valued his torical and cultural articles were carefully preserved and handed down. The fir s t archeological m u seums appeared at the beginning o f the 19th century in Southern U kraine and the Crimea. E ve ntu ally museums w ith historical, ethnographical and ecological collections appeared throughout Ukraine. Monasteries and reli gious academies preserved valu able religious antiquities. In the second h a lf of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, museums were estab- Translated by Tetiana Shevchuk Vol. X X I X . O CT O B E R , 1972 No. 8. lished and flourished in Halychy- na and V olhynia (W . U kraine). A new reign of terror and ruination fo r U k rain ian culture began w ith the firs t W orld W ar in 1914 and continues to the pre sent day. A ll of Europe suffered some destruction during the two W orld W ars b u t in no country was the vandalism and plunder ing so extreme as in Ukraine. The firs t W orld W a r left the towns and villages in ashes. D ur in g the Revolution, foreign and native mobs continued the ru in ation of architectural m onu ments, libraries, museum s and art collections. D u rin g the short “ Ukrainiani- zation” period, m useum experts and other qualified people enthu siastically began collecting and preparing whatever items had escaped destruction. They were soon replaced by unqualified per sons who stole, sold or destroyed m uch of w hat had been saved. A sim ilar fate befell the m u seum of W estern U kraine where, shortly after the second W orld W ar, there was a “re-organiza tio n ” of museum s and libraries. In his book A R C H E O L O G Y O F U K R A IN E , E . Pasternak tells of V alentyna Tkachenko T H E J O Y O F L IF E So you do not love me. W ell, so be it. Breezes fro m the Dnieper love me still. They caress m y hair, m y cheeks shall feel it. E very gentle breath shall b rin g a th rill. W h a t if you don’t love me any longer. The w arm native sunshine still loves me. W h en I walk it greets me like a lover. Its kisses are tru ly heavenly. W h a t i f I am not yours any longer. Joyous birds still greet me as their own. A nd although you treat me like a stranger, They gladden m y h eart w ith lively song. Yonder ox-eye daisy sm ilin g brightly, Heads of g rain to harvest beckoning — W ondrous strength and beauty o f m y country Arouse heart's love beyond all reckoning. W h a t if you rejected me forever — T hat sorrow m y soul shall overcome. M y native land has m any joys to offer, A n d I shall enjoy them one by one. V A L E N T Y N A T K A C H E N K O The literary heritage of this Ukrainian poetess consists of five collections of poetry. In her poems Valentyna Tkachenko depicted with deep understanding and sen sitivity the whole range of human emotions, particularly love, and she wrote frequently of her native land which she lo%?ed passionately . As is so often true of іvriters in the Soviet Union, she also paid her “dues" to the system by writ ing some propagandists poetry. Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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