Special Collection

This volume contains a collection of manuscript poems entitled “Kucheriavi peliustky: grotesky” written by Andrii Shelest in Western Ukraine from 1928 to 1933. Scope: 1928-1933 Size: 1 volume (93 leaves) Harvard Library Link

Seminar in Ukrainian Studies was initiated on October 13, 1970, and continues to be held once a week during the academic year. The Seminar provides a forum for faculty, scholars and advanced graduate students to present their research and then participate...

The collection consists of four notebooks of Ukrainian poetry that Schynkar collected from June 1915 to May 1917 while living in New York City. He recorded over 300 poems by people such as Iurii Fedkovych, Vasyl Shchurat, Vasyl Pachovskyi, Bohdan Lepkyi...

Stepan Salyk completed his studies at the Ukrainian Teachers’ Seminary in Lviv in 1921. Upon immigrating to the United States, he settled in New York City where he worked as a machinist and taught at the local Ukrainian school. With the exception of one...

Mykola Ponedilok (1922-1976) studied philology at Odesa University until the beginning of the Second World War, after which he immigrated to the United States. His literary career began in 1947 with translations of German, English, and French plays into...

Antin Ivanovych Podufalyi was born on August 3, 1896 in Komarivtsi, Mohyliv county, Podilla gubernia. He studied electro-technology at the Kyiv Politechnical Institute. Podufalyi served the Ukrainian National Republic as an engineer for the 2nd Division...

Po Radianskii Ukraini was a periodical of photographs documenting Soviet Ukraine. It was published in Kyiv beginning circa 1960 by the Ukrainian Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (Ukrainske tovarystvo druzhby ta...

Photographic resources in the Special Collections of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute have grown steadily over the years. Images, often accompanying collections of personal papers or occasionally given as separate gifts, now number close to 6,000...

Victor Peters is a professor emeritus of Moorhead State College in Minnesota, where he taught history for many years. Of German-Mennonite background, he comes from the same area in Ukraine where Makhno carried out his anarchism. Peters studied Russian and...

Mary (Wallick-Polyniak) Lesawyer (Lysohir) (1917-2004) was an opera singer affiliated with the New York City Opera. Her operatic and singing career spanned two decades and took her to various venues in North and South America and Europe. Mary Lesawyer...