On the eve of the start of a full-scale invasion of the collection of the Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum named after. VV. Tarnovskyi received a letter from Ukrainian rear-admiral Volodymyr Savchenko-Bilskyi, dated 1949 year.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovich Savchenko-Bilskyi (1867 р., Olyshivka - 1955 р., From Abon, Франція) - Ukrainian military figure, Corporal General of the Fleet of the Ukrainian People's Republic, rear admiral, chief of the Naval General Staff of the Ukrainian People's Republic, commander of the Black Sea Fleet.
He was born in the town of Olyshivka, Kozeletsky district, Chernihiv province (now a village in the Chernihiv district of the Chernihiv region) in a Ukrainian noble family. На початку 1917 year - V. Savchenko-Bilsky commanded the Sevastopol naval half-crew. Half crew in April 1917 already had its own Ukrainian flag - the first not only on the Ukrainian fleet, but also in the army.
Volodymyr Savchenko-Bilskyi made a lot of efforts to build the structures of the Ukrainian fleet. He founded midshipman schools in Mykolaiv, Sevastopol, Kamianets-Podilskyi. After the defeat of the liberation struggle, he was interned with units of the UNR Army in Poland. On 1945 lived in exile in France for a year. 21 September 1955 Volodymyr Savchenko-Bilsky died and was buried in the French city of Abondan.
Significant success in the artistic field was achieved by the nephew of Volodymyr Oleksandrovich - Oleksandr Vasyliovych Savchenko-Bilskyi (1900–1991), who became a famous Ukrainian artist.
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Iryna Hryhorivna Ralchenko handed over the letter to the museum (former director of the Chernihiv Regional Art Museum named after Hryhoriy Galagan).
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