1. Work by Alex Prokopenko, gymnasia №143, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ukrainian literature
Work by Alex Prokopenko, gymnasia №143, Kyiv, Ukraine.

2. Ukrainian literature
The most famous Ukrainian writers are: Hryhori Skovoroda, Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Pavlo Tychyna, V. Domontovych, Maksym Rylsky, Mykola Zerov Olena Teliha, Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko, Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, Ihor Kalynets, Vasyl Stus, Oksana Zabuzhko, Svitlana Pyrkalo, Maria Matios and others.

3. Hryhori Skovoroda
Hryhorii Skovoroda ( ) was a Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer.
Skovoroda received his education at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Skovoroda was born into a rich Ukrainian Cossack family in the village of Chornukhy in the Lubny regiment. He studied such subjects as poetry, syntax, Greek, and ethics at the Kharkiv College. Three days before he died, he went to the house of one of his closest friends and told him he had come to stay permanently. On the third day, he ate dinner, stood up and said, "my time has come." He went into the next room, lay down, and died. He requested the following epitaph to be placed on his tombstone:
“The world tried to catch me, but didn't succeed.”

4. Ivan Kotlarevsky
Ivan Petrovych Kotlyarevsky was a Ukrainian writer, poet and a playwright. He is regarded to be the pioneer of the modern Ukrainian literature. His epic-style poem Eneida is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in Ukrainian, an everyday language of millions. His two plays, also living classics, Natalka Poltavka and Moskal'-Charivnyk have started the development of Ukrainian national theater and opera. An interesting fact about Kotlyarevsky is his membership in a Poltava freemason lodge "Love for Truth“.

5. Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, artist and humanist. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language. Shevchenko also wrote in Russian and left many masterpieces as a painter and an illustrator.

6. Ivan Franko
Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, economist, and political activist. He was a political radical, and a founder of the socialist movement in western Ukraine. In addition to his own literary work, he also translated the works of William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Dante, Victor Hugo, Adam Mickiewicz, Goethe and others into the Ukrainian language. Along with Taras Shevchenko, he has had a tremendous impact on modern literary and political thought in Ukraine.

7. Lesia Ukrainka
Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka better known under her literary pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka was one of Ukraine's best-known poets and writers and the foremost woman writer in Ukrainian literature. Ukrainka wrote epic poems, prose dramas, prose, several articles of literary criticism, and a number of sociopolitical essays. She was best known for her plays Boyarynya (1914; The Noblewoman),, and Lisova pisnya (1912; The Forest Song).

8. Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko is a Ukrainian poet and writer, recipient of the Shevchenko Award.
Kostenko is a leading representative of Ukrainian poets of the sixties known as (dissidents). This group started publishing during the 1950s and reached its apex during the early 1960s. It was during the 1950s in which Kostenko published her first poems in major Ukrainian periodicals.

9. Maksym Rylsky
Maksym Tadeyovich Rylsky was a Ukrainian poet. He began writing as a representative of 'pure art' doctrine, during the Stalinist years adopted the official doctrine of 'socialist realism' (Rylsky's panegyry of Stalin: Stalin#Cult of personality). Later, Rylsky returned to neo-classical forms.

10. Yaroslav the Wise and his daughter Anna of Kiev or Anna Yaroslavna –
the queen of France.

11. Yaroslav the Wise
Yaroslav the Wise was the great public and cultural leader in the ancient Kyivan-Rus. He built the famous St. Sophia’s Cathedral with the first library and school.
Yaroslav married Ingegerd Olofsdotter, a daughter of the king of Sweden. Prince Yaroslav the Wise had five daughters (Anna probably being the youngest) and five sons.

12. The 11th-century fresco of St
The 11th-century fresco of St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kyiv represents the daughters of Yaroslav I Anastasia, Elizabeth, Agatha and Anna – the youngest one (between 1024 and 1032 – 1075).

13. How did Anne Became a Princess
King Henry searched the courts of Europe for a suitable bride, but could not locate a princess. At last he sent an embassy to distant Kyiv, which returned with Anne. Anne and Henry were married at the cathedral of Reims.
They had three sons: Robert, Hugh and Philip.

14. Anna’s Political Life
For six years after Henry's death in 1060, she served as regent for her son Philip I. Anna was the first queen of France to serve as regent. Her co-regent was Count Baldwin V of Flanders. Anne was a literate woman, rare for that time. But there was some opposition to her as regent on the grounds that her mastery of French was less than fluent.

15. Anne died in She was buried at Villiers Abbey, La-Ferte-Alais, Essonne and her obits were celebrated on September 5.

16. In this photo you can see a sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise.
Возможно его придется удалить, а то он сюда особо не вяжется. Как буд-то начали за здравие, а закончили за упокой. Не забудь на это посмотреть, а то я себя укушу.