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The best known of the Ukrainian painters are the portrait-painter, Borovikovsky (commencement of nineteenth century), and the poet, Shevchenko. In 1917 a Ukrainian Academy of Plastic Arts as opened at Kiev, the importance of which has already been manifested.
The Ukrainian sciences, and above all those which touch the country itself, have developed constantly.[1] In 1870 there existed at Kiev a Scientific Society which was an appendant to the Geographical Society of the Russian Empire, and which has published several remarkable works. But the former Society was closed on account of its national character. Publications in the Ukrainian language being rigorously forbidden, the Ukrainian scholars continued to publish in the Russian language the monthly review, "Kievskaia-Starina," devoted to the study of the native country, which commenced to appear in 1882, and lasted for twenty-five years.
In 1892, the Society "In Memory of Shevchenko," of Lemberg, became a scientific society, and published the first collection of his works. This Society had sections of history, philology, natural science, and mathematics. It possessed a museum, a library, a printing press, and a bookseller's shop. It published hundreds of volumes comprising original works and documents relative to all the sciences. In 1906, after the first Russian revolution, the Ukrainian Scientific Society was founded at Kiev, which also had several sub-divisions, and published in the Ukrainian language a number of scientific works and a periodical "Ukrainia."
- ↑ The most notable historians are Kostomanov, Antonovitch, Lasarevsky, Alexandra Efimenko, Hroushevsky, Vasilenko, Tomachivzski. The philologists Jitesky, Michalchouk, Smal-Stozky, Krimsky, deserve to he cited. In ethnography and folk-lore, Dragomanov. Tchoubinsky, Th. Volkov, Roudnitsky, have been remarkable for erudition and have been scholars of outstanding merit. Finally, among the critics and historians one must name Petrov, Ivan Franko, Serge Efremov and the academician Peretz.
