A museum before which the city failed to keep its word; a grandfather's museum, which the granddaughter's foot never set foot in; a cemetery, which bears witness with inscriptions on the slabs; a stained glass window in a store, which turned out to be not a fairy-tale castle, but a red lair of a beast; surviving paintings, the recognition of which came to the author for the last time; stolen paintings; a two-hundred-year-old school that made its students great. This collection - eight essays by writers - is not just a description of our monuments, focused on the walls themselves, but also an archive of private memory and a guide to the places that Russia is trying to destroy in the meantime.
Writer and publicist Olena Styazkina, journalist and Shevchenko laureate Yevheniya Podobna, editor and reporter Marichka Paplauskaite, writer and military serviceman Vladyslav Ivchenko, writer and journalist Olga Kari, publicist and popularizer of the Ukrainian East Natalia Mykhalchenko, editor, poet, cultural figure Olena Rybka, journalist and program director of the book festival Sofia Chelyak.
Cover and illustrations inside — Oksana Boyko.
The original idea for this book belongs to Viktoria Amelina. Viktoria is a Ukrainian writer and human rights activist who has been documenting Russian war crimes since the summer of 2022. Viktoria Amelina and twelve other people were killed by a missile fired by the Russians at a cafe in Kramatorsk in late June 2023.
Characteristics:
Book language: Ukrainian
Number of pages: 116
Dimensions: 22x17x2 cm