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“Crimea is the territory of Love!”

Roman Balaian “Dedication to Crimea”:
“God blessed land.
If to forget everybody, who has ever owned you,
if rememeber only the nature, inexpressible nature and joy,
gifted by those, who visited you..
If start from scratch and proclaim you
as the territory of Love and Compromise,
if to leave wirepulling of all sides,
if all your inmates would think about Peace and Grace,
what a mundane Paradise could be!
Uthopia, of course, but let the God worry about Your Destiny!”
(2009)

On the 7th of March 2014 in Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum a “Crimea is a territory of Love” exhibition was opened.

The historical way of  Ukraine was made so, that its every region has a unique and unrepeatable phenomenon in historical growing, ethnic pecularities, political orientations, culture, language, psychology of people and specificity of nature, which is also important for forming consciousness of citizens. But such differentiation of regions of our country isn’t a pretext for controversy and confrontations, rather for pride, because all this is our common national acquisition, which should be saved and multiplied.  
That’s why Kirovohrad Regional Art Museum makes a systematic work of reflection the magic beauty and unique of Western Ukraine, Dnieper Ukraine, Sloboda Ukraine and Black Sea Ukraine with the means of fine arts, populizing ideas that we are the children of one folk and one country, despite our differences.
“Crimea is the territory of Love!” exposition presents such unique region as Crimea, which is a treasure and inexhaustible source for researching for interested in history. This land had to see Greek and Roman colonies, multiple nomadic tribes, even of German origin. Some travellers were wondered about distinctly Arian type of face of inhabitants of peninsula, destroying the stereotype of Crimea, as exclusively Asian region. Having exceptionally important strategic value, Crimea often became a theater of war. Turkish and Tatar, English and French, Russian soldiers and Cossacks – everyone were here. A Civil War of 1918-1921, WW I, WW II – every event left deep wounds on this God-blessed land.
Nevertheless for many people Crimea is firstly assosiated with recreation zone and magic nature, which composites the unique climatic zones, which as if tranfers you in another dimension, awakening association with various exotic countries like Turkey, Italy, Spain etc. Everybody, who visited Kyiv scarcely forgive it.
This unique region always attracted creative people. It’s loved with poets, writers and musicians. The atsmosphere of Crimea and its unique colouring inspires with muses. The masters of brush are not exeptions, who visited an open air in Crimea, imaging the beauty of this side.
The workers of museum selected the exhibits with a great love and honour to the most beautiful nook of the Earth. Exposition “Crimea is the territory of Love!” presents the pictures made during such open-airs. These are the works of Petr Pokarzhevskyi “Crimean shore” (1957), “Yalta” (1957), “Hurzuf. Old Hotel” (1964), “A silver day in Hurzuf” (1964), Mykola Hlushchenko “Crimea. Hurzuf”, Mykola Liadovskyi “In Crimean steppe” (1964), Halyna Melikhova “On Crimean roads” (1967), Vasyl Fedorov “Hurzuf” series (1980, 1983),  Leonid Orlyk “Tarhankut” (1984), “Ay Petri” (1985), “Upper street in Koreiz” (1987), Oleksandr Siuzumov “Southern landscape” (1996), Serhii Shapovalov “Rocky shore” (2006). They represents the romantic and patriotic artists, loved in the beauty of the nature of their country and proud of it. That’s why the value of this pictures doesn’t restraints only aesthetic education, as much as they aimed to form a patriot with active civic stand. Another important aspect of the exhibition  - informative, because  it shows the visitor, with the fine arts means, the pecularities of nature, history, architecture, life and customs of such unique region as Crimea.