Where to go: s. Kolodyazhne-s. Svityaz

It is worth taking with you

• - the best memories from Ukrainian lessons;
• - verbal portrait of Mavka;
• - readiness to meet Perelesnyk;
• - self-taught (or just a teacher) in swimming;
• - ten hryvnias.

As a child, she loved playing Jeanne d’Arc and Robinson Crusoe. And to visit Lutsk Castle and secretly wander in the park of my father's estate at night from everyone in the world. She wrote her first poem at the age of eight. And at 13 she started signing under a pseudonym that is known all over the world. She created her Don Juan and Donna Anna, the soothsayer Cassandra, the biblical Miriam, the mythical nymph from the Volyn forests… She wrote the drama extravaganza "Forest Song" in just ten days, being treated in Georgia and remembering Volyn. And when the one she loved died, she created "Obsessed" in one night. Lesya Ukrainka is considered a genius.

If it is interesting to hear who, as a child, the future writer was looking for in the night grove; why she became a poetess and not a pianist, as she dreamed; whom she loved and who loved her; why she got married only at the age of 36; I want to visit the house in the village of Kolodyazhne, where Lesya Ukrainka lived, and walk the mysterious forest paths, where you could meet Perelesnik or Mavka herself, and then get to the amazing lake, deep as the sea, then a route that combines literary stories. and Svityaz, just for you.