Overview

Welcome to Ukraine!

Dear visitors of our blog,
European Championship is on the way and you are probably going to visit Ukraine. That’s why I decided to help you with necessary information for planning your visit to Ukraine. I hope you will find it useful.

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What I always do when I’m going to visit a country for the first time?
(Problems and Solutions)

– I look for some general information about that country =about Ukraine=

– I gather information about cities which I’m planning to visit =For those, who are planning to visit Kiev=

– I think about a place where to stay for a night or two. Usually it is not difficult to cope with this task, since Hotel staff is always ready to help you. But during Euro 2012 period most tourists will probably face this problem and also they will probably find unfairly high prices for apartments, hotel rooms or even for a place in small tent cities. We can offer you the following options:  =APARTMENTS for RENT in KIEV=

    In a couple of days I will write a post about small tent cities that will be settled in Kiev for a period of Euro 2012.

– I look for places that might be interesting for me. I do believe that it is the most important and interesting, but at the same time it is quite a difficult task since there are a lot of interesting places to visit in Kiev (Kyiv) and Ukraine, in general. Below you can find a list of my posts about several places:

=Kiev Pechersk Lavra=
=Dreams come true=
=GOLDEN GATE=

=Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art=
=National Museum of Natural History=
=The Ukrainian Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life=
=Museum of Miniatures=
=Museum of the Great Patriotic War=
=Museum of water in Kiev=
=Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine=

=Kiev Nightlife & Nightclubs (part 1)=
=Kiev Nightlife & Nightclubs (part 2)=

– When I’m going to a country where people speak the language that I don’t know, I try to find someone who can give me a useful advice or make an excursion for me. I know how to solve this problem in the capital of Ukraine – Kiev (Kyiv)! Please read the article =About us= where you can find a list of our services. If you are looking for Private Guide Services in Kiev or Personal Gide-interpreters just click =HERE=. If you want to know about Kiev Nightlife, just click =Guided Tours to Kiev Nightlife Venues= and you will have nothing to worry about.

    Specially for our clients we have =Delivery services=

=Limousine Rental = is the best option, if you want to have more grandeur tour. There is a number of occasions for renting a car.

   I hope that this overview turned out to be useful and I kindly ask you to share it with your friends. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to  =contact with us=

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Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art

The Museum of Art named after Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko was founded in 1919 on the basis of their private museum. The museum is also called the Museum of Western and Oriental Art. Now it keeps one of the best collections of foreign art in Ukraine. From 1919 the number of exhibits has been more than 13 times increased – from 1,250 to nearly 17,000 artworks, with 2,000 pieces exposed in museum halls. Visitors can view many remarkable samples of foreign art: Ancient Greek, Roman, Italian, French, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Turkish, Egyptian, etc. Famous founders of museum’s collections Bogdan Khanenko and his wife Varvara always dream to open the public museum of art in Kiev, while collecting works of famous artists and sculptors. Finally their dreams came true. In 1999 the museum they have created celebrated its 80th anniversary. The collection of the museum consists of 25 thousands of exhibits and is considered to be the biggest foreign art collection in Ukraine. Among the museum’s collection there are real fine art masterpieces. There is, for example, the world-famous work of Diego Velasquez, The Portrait of Infanta Margaret, located in the Spanish hall of the museum. The famous portrait appeared in Kiev after Bogdan Khanenko had purchased it in Berlin on the sale of Hamburg council Weber’s collections. The presentation of the painting in Kiev was arranged very mysteriously. Khanenko hasn’t informed the guests of the banquet about the real reasons. When the curtain was taken away from the Velasquez’ masterpiece, the audience was really impressed. The picture created a real furore in cultural life of Kiev at that time. Khanenko’s cultural heritage is the core of the museum’s collection. The breadth of collectors’ range of interest is impressive. There are Egyptian statues and bronze sculptures, antic terracotta and glassware, Roman and Greek sculptures, Byzantine exhibits, ivory, church stained-glass, icons, fabrics, jewelry of Kievan Russia. With time the collection enriched and formed, thanks to the efforts of many famous people. The famous patron of art from Saint Petersburg, V. Shavinskiy, donated about 200 priceless masterpieces of Flemish, Netherlands and Dutch painting schools. The museum’s stock was enriched with unique Chinese paintings of the 16th-20th centuries. Taisia Jasparre, native Ukrainian wife of French ambassador in Peking Andre Stephen Jasparre, presented 400 scrolls of paintings to the museum. Every item of the museum’s collection has its interesting history. The appearance of valuable Juan de Zurbaran’s still-life painting is the whole story. Once famous stud-owner from Moscow Malyutin decided to get rid of old things left from the previous owner on the attic of his new house. Moscow millionaire was not interested in the stuff kept there but also hasn’t allowed Khanenko to research it. He was forcing Khanenko to buy all the stuff at once. Khanenko have decided to take a risk. The result was not a loose. Among these things there was the valuable masterpiece of famous Spanish painter, a fantastic boon for an art collector and also some of excellent paintings of Dutch masters. The building of museum was constructed under the project of famous architect from Saint Petersburg F. Meltzer in the 80s of the 19th century. Then it was reconstructed and decorated several times according to plans of Khanenko family. Being the famous specialist in the history of Kiev V. Kovalinsky once said “this building was the shell and the architectural addition to the great art collections of Khanenko family.” Although the collection covers a wide range of countries, it does not claim to complete representation of periods and styles of the foreign art and creative manners of foreign artist. It is not the number of art pieces, but unique nature of many of them that makes Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art famous not only in Ukraine but far abroad as well.

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