The Ukrainian Cultural Gardens are particularly beautiful during cherry blossom season when the trees surrounding the garden plaza are in bloom. In the center of the plaza is a statue of the poet, Lesya Ukrainka. Surrounding her are statues of the poet Ivan Franko, Saint Vladimir of Kiev and poet Taras Shevchenko. I visited on Holy Saturday 2022 having driven by on Good Friday and seeing the trees in the garden were in full bloom. Some support for the...
Read moreStatue of poet Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka (Lesya Ukrainka) in the garden, as well as three bronze busts that celebrate significant nationalist leaders in Ukraine history: poet and writer Ivan Franko (1856-1916); Grand Prince of Kiev Volodymyr the Great (c. 956-1015); and Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, a poet, teacher and artist...
Read moreSymbolic Ukrainian garden in this international park complex consisting of the memorials to the famous Ukrainian writers and poets - Lesya Ukraïnka, Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Franko, as well as the Prince Volodymyr the Great of Kyiv - the baptizer of...
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