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We are step by step osmislyuem our past, dissecting the grandiose and vast historical landscapes, recognising events and names. The historical world is returning to its most important actors, about whom for decades we did not want to think about, forced to forget about them. Selected in this book of art life paintings of mittsiv of different epochs give the opportunity to feel the personal dimension of culture, to think about the price of the dramatic choice between the old and new faith, between Ukrainian and imperial art. The collisions of the pianist Alina Kraґelskoi and Professor Mykola Kostomarov, as well as the sprawling mandrils of European artist Anton Losenok, the creative achievements and challenges of Kharkiv poet-romantic Amvrosiy Metlinsky, the Ukrainian choice of writer Yuriy Fedkovych - all the fascinating biographical subjects of the XVIII-XIX centuries.