125 years ago the great Ukrainian Vasyl Tarnovsky bequeathed his collection of Ukrainian antiquities to Chernigov.
Extract from the will: One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, the twenty-fifth day of October, by invitation, I arrived, Nikolai Alexandrovich Vorobyov, Kyiv notary, from my office ... to house number thirty-second A on Bolshaya Vladimirskaya street, in the city of Kyiv, where Vasily Vasilievich Tarnovsky, who lives in the same house, is personally known to me and has legal capacity to commit acts, in the presence of witnesses known to me personally of the real state councilor Alexander Matveyevich Lazarevsky, court adviser Yevgeny Alexandrovich Kivlitsky and nobleman Nikolai Fedorovich Kosyura ... announced to me, notary, what he, Tarnovsky, wishes to make a notarial spiritual testament of the following content: In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. Я, The undersigned State Councilor Vasily Vasilyevich Tarnovsky, being of sound mind and solid memory, recognized as good, in case of my death, make the following order:… Third, my collection of Little Russian antiquities, consisting of original portraits and copies, ancient paintings, weapons, early printed books, archive, book libraries, related to Little Russia, and other antiques, as well as a collection of things, papers, books and everything related to the memory of the poet Shevchenko I will bequeath to the property of the Chernihiv provincial zemstvo, without the right to alienate and move them from the city of Chernihiv, so, to have the museum named after me, as well as, if not met by government obstacles, with the approval of the hereditary trustee of this museum, what rank should always go to the eldest in my family”.
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