Finds from the museum library

Recovering from hostilities in besieged Chernihiv, employees of the Chernihiv Historical Museum named after Vasyl Tarnovsky, among other things, turned to the inventory of his scientific library. A similar sample of artillery is stored in the collection of the Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum. D.I. Yavornytsky, that our library contains many valuable and rare publications, and its catalog has not yet been concluded.

The library was formed in the XIX century. It includes libraries of various institutions, who disappeared in the flames of Bolshevik terror, scientific publications, journalistic, fiction and encyclopedic literature of the mid-XVIII - early XXI centuries. Books from the Vasyl Tarnovsky Library have a special place. A special place is still loudly spoken, because we could not find all the books, who survived the destruction of the museum in 1941 year. However, this search continues.

Do 2018 year in the "Treasury of Ukrainian Culture" - a museum magazine published a special issue 2. It consists of two parts. It contains a manuscript of the catalog of printed publications of the Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities VV. Tarnovsky. The catalog was compiled by Maria and Boris Grinchenko, who sincerely mourned the fate of the museum.

The library fund of the then museum consisted of 2432 publications. Станом на 2018 year in the library and museum funds found 256 publications.

6 May 2022 year, the head of the library Peter Grebny found more 4 edition. And this is a real holiday, after all, two editions with autographs.

One of the discovered publications - "P.. Zhitetskiy. Thoughts on the Little Russian Folk Thoughts. Edition of the magazine Kyiv Starina, 1893 » - № 56, Department. V according to the Catalog. This collection is the result of research by a famous Ukrainian linguist, folklorist and public figure Pavel Hnatovych Zhytsky. You can learn about it from many sources, so I will not refer to them.

The publication itself can be read at the link https://archive.org/details/zhitetski2/page/n1/mode/2up so, again, it makes no sense to describe it.

But the value of this book is not just that, that it belonged to the museum library, but also to Vasily Tarnovsky himself. This is evidenced by the gift inscription, made, obviously, two people, including, безперечно, and the author himself. The autograph can be seen in the photo, so I will not rewrite it either.

Pavlo Zhytetsky was friends with Vasyl Tarnovsky. They met many times in Kyiv. He also visited Kachanivka, as evidenced by his autograph in the album "Kachanivka", left in the fall 1891 year. Then to B. Tarnowski together with P.. Zhitetsky arrived in. Naumenko, Є. Tregubov and M.. Dragomirov. However,, not everyone signed the album, after all, Dragomirov's autograph is dated September 1891 year.

The library kept two copies of another work by Pavel Zhytsky with his autographs to Vasyl Tarnovsky., which still can and will be found. Both can be seen in the photo of the editorial office and staff of "Kiev Antiquity", made in 1898 year (photo taken http://immh.kiev.ua/ya-pochuv-grunt-v-kiyivi-i-pozitsiyu-dlya-roboti-do-110-oyi-richnitsi-obrannya-mihayla-grushevskogo-golovoyu-ukrayinskogo-naukovogo-tovaristva-u-kiyevi/ ).

About other findings, no less interesting, a little later.

Director of the museum Serhiy Laevsky