Museums of memory in Georgia. Lesya Ukrainka Museum.
The life of Lesya Ukrainka was not easy, and the museum, named in her honor, is a tribute to the girl. There are five halls, which contain many objects that tell the story of the life and work of Lesya Ukrainka. Here you can see documentary materials, photographs, old money and items from the Ukrainian people.
Address: Khashuri district, Surami village
The museum was opened in 1952 on the initiative of Giorgi Leonidze. It is located in a house of nineteenth century, which belonged to a representative of the local nobility Surami, the famous ethnographer Nikoloz Abazadze.
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Larysa Petrovna Kosach was born in Ukraine, in the city of Novograd-Volynsky February 25, 1871 in the family of the writer Helena Pchelka.
The life tragedy of Lesya Ukrainka was her long illness. She suffered from bone tuberculosis since childhood and needed treatment. That is why most part of her life she spent in Georgia, where, beginning from 1903 she lived periodically till the end of her life.
Through the Georgian intelligentsia she became acquainted with the culture and history of Georgia: "What an interesting and wonderful land Georgia, what courage and heroism had to have a handful of people to be saved in so many troubles and hardships. If I was not Ukrainian, I wish I was Georgian. I fell in love with Georgia just as I fell in love with my homeland, Ukraine." That was her attitude toward Georgia.
The museum has five exposition halls, where there are rich ethnographic, documentary, photo and numismatic exhibits, as well as items donated to the museum by Ukrainian people.
Over there, on Mount Zindisi, on a high granite pedestal, there is a bronze monument to Lesya Ukrainka, which is decorated with a laurel wreath. The author of the sculpture is Georgian sculptor Tamara Abakelia.
Every autumn there is a celebration in honor of Lesya Ukrainka that is traditionally held in front of the monument. This is the name of the holiday that has become a symbol of friendship between the Georgian and Ukrainian peoples. The poetry of two great poets - Lesya Ukrainka and David Guramishvili became a connecting link in this friendship. Guramishvili, who left his homeland two centuries ago due to the vicissitudes of fate, found refuge in Ukraine and there he finished his main work "Davitiani".
And on August 1, 1913 the Ukrainian poet Larissa Kosach ended her life in Georgia.
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