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An exquisite gift from the Canadian of Ukrainian origin to the Art Museum

For the first time, our Museum of Art received such a wonderful gift that came to us by sea, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, from Canada, Bury, Ontario.

 It was on the eve of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the museum for visitors that the museum received a shipment with a collection of porcelain products of foreign household porcelain, which were donated by Ms. Olena Berikul - Kryvoruchko, a Canadian citizen of Ukrainian origin. After 30 years of collecting porcelain, she decided to donate a private collection to 4 regions of Ukraine, where her family comes from. One of such regions is our Steppe Hellas - Kirovograd region, where her grandmother Romanenko Kateryna Amosivna comes from and where in the 18th-19th centuries her ancestors lived - Kryvoruchky - Bug Cossacks of Krasnosillya. According to Ms. Olena, her great-grandfather Amos Romanenko served as a cook for General Samsonov in Yakymivka, and her grandfather Viktor Berikul (from a family of displaced Moldovans) worked on the railway in Oleksandrivka.

Ms. Olena herself, who by the way works as a teacher of music, drama and dance in a public high school, formed her collection, including on the principles of diversity and personal preferences. Therefore, such an author's collection, which was collected by the philanthropist for several decades, is essentially not just a unique collection of collectibles, but also a collection of interesting informational and illustrative material and unusual facts about the components of this collection and its exhibits (such materials were also added to the sent collection). .

76 items of various porcelain: plates, vases, cups and plates, figurines, stands, decorative dishes, etc. household porcelain, consumer goods and decoration of the human home will be a new exhibition "Beauty of consumer goods" (foreign household porcelain of the 20th century - philanthropist Elena Berikul - Kryvoruchko, Canada) which will soon be opened at the Museum of Art. In the meantime, new receipts pass the mandatory procedure of registration, attribution, certification, and will become a worthy part of the museum's stock collection, the state part of the Museum Fund of Ukraine.

It is very gratifying that Ukrainians from all over the world, having their roots in our region, remain ardent patriots of Ukraine, caring about its problems and future destiny.

Once again, we are sincerely grateful to Ms. Olena Berikul-Kryvoruchko for such a significant gift, warm words of congratulations and high appreciation of our museum work.

"… With this gift I hope to make a modest contribution to the cultural revival of my historical homeland, to deepen cooperation between Ukrainians of the world as a single nation, to promote the development of volunteerism and voluntary donation in Ukraine." - O. Berikul-Krivoruchko.

 

Anna Osipova - Deputy Director of the Art Museum for Research Activities.