Another dimension of Poltava

The latest issue of the glossy Route No. 1, Poltava, is one more jigsaw puzzle on the basis of which we “bring together” our Ukraine. After working in Odesa, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Volyn, and Cherkasy oblasts, Den’s journalists visited Poltava. On the one hand, the Den 2014 Photo Exhibit is now finishing at Poltava’s Mykola Yaroshenko Art Museum. On the other, how many interesting things we came to know about this place when we were preparing this fresh glossy for you!

The cover shows a line from Maksym Rylsky’s poem “A Word about My Mother” which he wrote in the now distant 1941: “The crown of a quiet Poltava…” This is the pervading mood and image of Poltava in the fresh Route No. 1.

“I have always had this feeling: I wanted to visit Poltava. And one of this area’s guides can, naturally, be Rylsky who encoded his attitude which eventually brought about a desire to read Poltava differently. To reread and reconsider it,” Den’s editor-in-chief Larysa Ivshyna says in her introductory column. “Poltava is ‘stuffed’ with an incredible number of mind-rousing places, but I personally visited just some of them. This only whetted my ‘appetite.’ For example, I was at the museum of Ivan Kotliarevsky but not at that of Volodymyr Korolenko. I badly need this because I truly honor the memory of this person, and Korolenko’s letters are of an extremely great strength. Likewise, I would like to visit new modern-style places, such as, for example, CityLab…”