Lesia Ukrainka, Bronze statue in Pechersk district, Kyiv, Ukraine
The Lesia Ukrainka memorial is a bronze statue of a standing woman holding a book, placed on a stone pedestal in a public area of Kyiv, Ukraine. The figure wears traditional clothing and shows carefully worked details in the face and garments.
Lesia Ukrainka lived from 1871 to 1913 and published her first poetry collection at age 19, despite struggling with serious illness throughout her life. The statue was erected after her death to keep her work present in Ukraine's public memory.
Lesia Ukrainka was the pen name of Larysa Kosach, a poet whose work is still taught in schools across Ukraine. The statue stands in a busy public space where people stop to look at it during everyday walks through the city.
The statue stands in a well-connected part of Kyiv and is easy to reach on foot from nearby streets. A short stop is enough to walk around it and see it from all sides.
Although she is known mainly as a poet, Lesia Ukrainka also wrote plays and translated works from several European languages into Ukrainian. This side of her work is little known even among many of her own compatriots today.
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