On Saturday, June 8 at 6:00 pm, within the framework of the exhibition "The Way of the Aeneas. Artists of the present-day-by-itself with the past" will be the latest event of the parallel program - a lecture by the expert of the Kharkiv LitMuseum Olga Cheremskaya "Group portrait on the background of the monument. Ukrainian "Aeneid" and its context ".

The meeting will be dedicated to the photo of Joseph Khmelevsky represented at the exhibition - a group portrait of Ukrainian culture figures at the opening of the monument to Ivan Kotlyarevsky in Poltava in 1903. The photo from the collection of the Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of Panas Mirny depicts people who have overcome the path from different cities — in Poltava, to testify to their involvement in the Ukrainian cultural community, against the monument of the author of the Ukrainian "Aeneid". Why is this event important for the history of Ukrainian culture? In what context did Kotlyarevsky's "Aeneid" appear? Who is Joseph Khmelevsky? Let's talk about these and other issues - at the meeting.

The exhibition project and educational program were implemented with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation in the framework of the Significant events for Ukrainian culture - the program of the UCF