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| From the Editor (17.07.2006): |
| Actual Philosophy in Lviv has announced its participation in celebrations back 2004 when we posted the photographed essay about Ivan Franko's Estate Museum in Lviv. We can proudly say now that the reference link and parts of our text were included to the English version of article on Ivan Franko in Wikipedia Encyclopaedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Franko). Today the material is available again at our site. There are feverish renovation works linked to the Autumn celebrations of the writer's birthday still being held in Musem, and, as we were told by its authorities on July 14, 2006, "it will be still going on for a long time". Hence, our essay seems to be the only opportunity to get inside for now. |
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Day in Ivan Franko's House in Lviv
Photographed Essay of 30 May 2004 from the Lviv Museum of Ivan Franko |
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As a part of the Annual Ivan Franko Memorial Days in Lviv (27 May - 6 June 2004) the day of Sunday, 30 May 2004, was set as the Open Doors' Day in Lviv Museum of the great Ukrainian poet, writer, literary criticist and social thinker Ivan Franko. Everyone could come to see for free the interior of the last shelter of a great person where Ivan Franko spent the last 14 years, probably, the most difficult years of his life. This is not to say that you cannot visit museum on any other day. You simply do not need to pay on the Open Doors' Day. |
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house itself was bought in share by Ukrainian community ashamed by the
fact that a prominent person like him does not have a place of his own.
Here he slipped away at 4 pm on 28 May 1916 having no one of his big family
at his side. He was dying in an extreme poverty and people who came to
pay their last tribute saw him lying on the table covered with nothing
but a ragged sheet. Other people share the cost of a suit to bury him.
This tragic scene prompted Heinrich Wigeleiser of the Academic Gimnasium
to tell his Ukrainian students: "Go and see him lying - as poor as
the entire your nation is. You did not prize him when he was alive and
you do not prize him now, when he is dead".
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These
words were cruel, but - alas! - quite true. Ivan Franko has been definetely
an independent person, a person of conviction and therefore - an unconvenient
one. He was an unconvenient person for Austrian authorities when he was
first arrested by misunderstanding, charged with the propaganda of socialist
ideas and jailed; surely, this prompted him to pay every effort to learn
the socialist ideology. He was an unconvenient person for his fellow Ukrainians
at Lviv University when they did not allow him to defend his doctorate
being scared of possible consequences for supporting politically unreliable
writer and social activist; instead he went to Vienna and successfully
received his PhD from Vienna University.
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He
became unconvenient for his family when being allegedly ill with syphilis
(in fact, it was the unknown at times Reiter's disease), suffering immense
pains, he declined a proposal to move to Kiev hence leaving his mentally
sick wife Olga who was struck by the death of one of their's son alone
in Lviv.
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Yes,
these days have gone. Now the very University that threw him out bears
his name (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv), there is a street
and a square of his name, there is a huge monument in front of the University
and his portrait is being put on the Ukrainian banknote of 20 hryvnas.
His works were published twice in large collections (20-volume edition
of 1950s and 50-volume edition of 1980s). There are governmental and local
organising committees to celebrate his 150 anniversary in 2006 and just
the University programme of celebrations enlists some 4 pages. And yet...
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As
a part of the Annual Ivan Franko Memorial Days in Lviv the day of Sunday,
30 May 2004, was set as the Open Doors' Day in Lviv Museum of Ivan Franko.
It is not a mistake, just a reminder. Everyone could come to see for free
the interior of the last shelter of a great person where Ivan Franko spent
the last 14 years, probably, the most difficult years of his life. Here
he slipped away at 4 pm on 28 May 1916 having no one of his big family
at his side.
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You
see, everyone could come, but there were only THREE visitors this day.
The first one was a reporter from Lviv "Vysoky Zamok" newspaper
who was obliged to write an article. The second one was a little bit strange
person who dropped in by chance - he actually was on his way home from
a church - oh, yes, it was the day of Trinity holiday, one of the most
important religious holidays of Ukrainian Christians. The thirds and virtually
last (it was almost closed) where us... Couple of days later I asked myself:
how many visitors come to the Museum on usual days?...
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In
preparing the material we used information presented by the Director of
Ivan Franko Museum in Lviv, Mr Roman Horak at the Ivan Franko seminar
(Institute for Ivan Franko Studies of the Ivan Franko Lviv National University,
Lviv, Universytetska 1) on 27 May 2004. We also would like to express
our admiration for Mr Roman Horak's dedication to the figure of Ivan Franko
through the years.
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©
All photos of this
page by Yevgeny Brazul-Bruszkowski were made on the day mentioned, 30
May 2004.
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| ALSO READ AND WATCH: |
ТАКЖЕ
ЧИТАЙТЕ И СМОТРИТЕ:
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| Jubilee! Ivan Franko's 150 Anniversary on 27th August 2006! |
Юбилей!
27 августа 2006 года - 150-годовщина со дня рождения Ивана Франко!!
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| Actual Franko: An Invitation | ||
| (Who Ivan Franko was and why we've got engaged in) |
(Кто
такой Иван Франко и почему мы занялись этим)
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| Selected papers by Ivan Franko | ||
| (in original Ukrainian language with pagination according to printed texts) |
(на
украинском языке с постраничной пагинацией)
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| "What
Progress Is?", "What Do We Want?", "Social Action, Social Issue and Socialism", "Science and Its Relation Towards the Working Classes" |
"Что
такое погресс?", "Чего мы хотим?", "Социальное действие,
социальный вопрос и социализм", "Наука и ее отношение к рабочим
классам"
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| Ivan Franko and Austrian Philosophy |
Иван
Франко и австрийская философия
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| (by Yevgeny Brazul-Bruszkowski ) |
(Евгений
Бразуль-Брушковский)
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| ...For many reasons, there's a good ground to believe that Ivan Franko in his social views was much more immersed in intellectual tradition of Austrian enlightenment, with its strong accent upon the role of science and education for upbringing of society, rather than in Eastern Ukrainian movements of populism or commuitarianism both ignoring scientific and educational issues altogether as irrelevant to the national revival. |
...По
многим причинам существуют веские основания считать, что Иван Франко в
своих социальных взглядах был гораздо больше включен в интеллектуальную
традицию Австрийского просвещения, с его акцентом на роли науки и образования
для формирования и развития общества, чем в восточноукраинские движения
народничества или общинности (громадівства), игнорировавших научные и
образовательные вопросы как безотносительные к национальному возрождению.
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