185-річчя Василя Тарновського

Vasyl Vasyliovych Tarnovsky Jr. is a philanthropist, колекціонер, громадський діяч.

Народився 185 років тому, 20 March (1 April) 1838 year in the village of Antonivka, Pyryatyn district, Poltava region (now Chernihiv region).

Vasyl started collecting Ukrainian antiquities from his youth, sparing no expense in purchasing rare exhibits. Adding to the family collection, Vasyl Jr. used the advice of famous Ukrainian historians: Volodymyr Antonovych, Oleksandr Lazarevskyi, Dmytro Yavornytskyi. He owned an estate in the village of. Kachanivka. Frequent guests of Kachanivka were numerous neighbors and relatives of the Tarnovskys - representatives of ancient Ukrainian noble families: Galagans, Whitened, Kochubei, Markevichi.

The same, like his uncle and father, Vasyl Vasyliovych Jr. was friends with Taras Shevchenko. Vasyl Tarnovsky collected 1000 units of pictorial works, drawings, рукописів, autographs and personal belongings of Kobzar. After the poet's death, he often visited his grave, where he built a cross at his own expense and installed a bas-relief.

The monthly magazine "Kievskaya starina" was published for many years not without the financial help of a patron, around which the conscious Ukrainian intelligentsia gathered. Vasyl Vasyliovych made significant donations for the construction of monuments to Ivan Kotlyarevskyi in Poltava and Bohdan Khmelnytskyi in Kyiv, construction of the Kyiv Public Library, conducting archaeological research on Knyazha Gora near Kanev. Thanks to Tarnovsky, many unique publications were published.

In 1897 Dr.. Vasyl Tarnovskyi donated his collection of Ukrainian antiquities "without the right of alienation and transfer from the city of Chernihiv" to the Chernihiv Provincial Zemstvo.

Died 13 (25) July 1899 year in Kyiv. At first he was buried near the Askold grave, and later (in the 30s of the XX century.) - the ashes were transferred to the Zvirynetsky cemetery.

The opening of the V.V. Tarnovskyi Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities took place in 1902 Dr.. Do 1991 Dr.. The name of Vasyl Tarnovsky Jr. was returned to the Chernihiv Historical Museum.