The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory and the Museum of Kyiv History present the exhibition, dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of Dmytro Yavornytskyi, “Yavornytskyi: On the Path to the History of the Cossacks”.

The exhibition is based on paintings by Artem Pohribnyi, created for the book “Dmytro Yavornytskyi: From Kharkiv to the Dnipro”. Using archival sources, the artist was able to recreate key images from Yavornytskyi’s life — historic views of Sontsivka, Kharkiv, and the Dnipro.
Also the exhibition presents traditional folk costumes from Poltava Region and Chernihiv-Sivershchyna from the collection of Nataliia Slobozhanina, an employee of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.

Dmytro Yavornytskyi was a historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, and lexicographer who devoted his life to the study of the Zaporizhian Cossacks and became a true guardian of the Cossack past. He succeeded in changing the perspective of an entire generation of Ukrainians on their own history and in restoring the heroic images of the Cossacks to the nation’s memory.