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Book 1. Marsiani na Khreshchatyk. Literary Kiev XX century

Walking around Kiev, it is easy to recognise a number of locations described in poems and novels of the early twentieth century. Some of them have changed the numbers of landlords, new facades, sometimes other names of streets, but if you look closely, you can imagine how Tichina and Kurbas sat at the same table at the "Lohu Mistetsv" on Gorodetskyi, a little further away, in Pidmogilny's office, the whole of Kyiv's art world gathered, and in the basement of the Continental Hotel, the irreconcilable aspanglists, symbolists, and spirallists met over a cava. In the evening Khreshchatyk strolled real "Marsians", and in St. George's Prowl was looking for new discoveries mysterious mystic art theosophical girl.

The new book by Vira Ageyeva - a mandrivka literary Kiev at the beginning of the twentieth century. The author will show Kiev through the eyes of avant-garde artists, rebellious emancipated women, bohemian singers, the Kiev in which they lived and created, despite everything that had happened before, the Kiev that stood firm, preserving its history and future.

Book 2. Behind the Lashtunks of Imperium

A lot has already been written about Ukrainian-Russian relations in the context of Russian interests and priorities. Russia unceremoniously ennobled its own history with other people's achievements and achievements, while depriving Ukrainians of their past. From the Ukrainian point of view, the picture is quite different.

It is not for one century that Ukrainian literature has been the source of anti-colonial discourse. From Kotlyarevsky, Kvitka-Osnov'yanenok, Kharkiv romantics up to the era of modernism and the establishment of the state, it proposed different models of identity, supporting imperial claims and asserting its own cultural self-determination.

In this book authoritative literary scholar Vira Ageyeva analyses the Ukrainian opposition to the empire and the struggle to preserve collective memory through the prism of the cultural process.

In this book authoritative literary scholar Vira Ageyeva analyses the Ukrainian opposition to the empire and the struggle to preserve collective memory through the prism of the cultural process.

Vira Ageyeva is a professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize. Feminist, who was one of the first in the post-Soviet era to speak about the need for revision of patriarchal values.

Author of the books "Women's Space: Feminist Discourse of Ukrainian Modernism", "Poetics of Paradox: Intellectual Prose of Viktor Petrova-Domontovich", "Apologia Moderna: A Sketch of the Twentieth Century", "Roads and Seredochrestya", "A Mirror on Stone. Mikola Bazhan: The Life of a (non)Radian Poet" and others.