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Monument to Lesya Ukrainka
Full name of the monument :

Monument to Lesya Ukrainka

Region :
Sumy region
Address of the monument :
Square, center of Kosivshchyna village, Sumy district
Status :
Historical monument of local significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1987
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Soviet period (1922-1991)
Artist(s) :
Ya. Krasnozhon
sculptor
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
female
Nationality :
Ukrainian
Social status :
intellectuals
Components of the monument :
The height of the sculpture is 1.4 m, the pedestal is 3.15 m
Material :
mixed materials
Type of art composition :
one-figure composition
Artistic approach :
figurative art
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
annotation inscription
Language(s) of the text :
Ukrainian
Narrative commemorates :
Ukrainian national resistance during the Lithuanian-Polish era
The preservation state of the monument at the time of the research :
exists
Institution responsible for maintenance :
Institution’s website :
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
Lesya Ukrainka (Larysa Petrivna Kosach) is an outstanding Ukrainian poetess. In the spring of 1889, she came to the village of Kosivshchyna near the city of Sumy to be treated by the folk healer Paraskovia Nazarivna Bogush. She lived here for a month and a half. She left her impressions of what she saw on the pages of the poetry collection "Spring Songs". The house in which the poetess lived has not survived to our time. The monument was erected not far from the site of P. Bogush's house. Around the monument is a park, which, together with the sculpture, forms a single composition. The bronze bust of the poetess is placed on a high rectangular plinth with incised corners made of small marble, set on a plinth made of granite black and red slabs. On the pedestal is a black granite slab with the inscription "Lesya Ukrainka". The bust was made by the author in 1983, as evidenced by the print on the back, and the monument was erected in 1988. Wide steps lead to the foot of the monument, which seem to emerge from the chestnut avenue of the park. In the village Lesya Ukrainka's folk museum operates at the secondary school in Kosivshchyna. The oldest street in the village bears her name.