November 25 marked the 187th anniversary of the birth of the classic of Ukrainian literature I.S. Nechuy-Levytsky. To honor the memory of our compatriot and get to know his work better, students of Korsun-Shevchenko Gymnasium No. 1 visited the literary and memorial museum of the writer. The students got acquainted with the museum exposition, examined authentic things that belonged to the writer himself and his family – Orthodox priests Levitsky. With particular interest, the gymnasium students examined the exposition of Hall 4, which recreates the Kyiv period of the writer’s life and his study. They were interested in the congratulatory addresses and gifts that the hero of the day Nechuy received during the celebration of the 35th anniversary of his creative activity in December 1904, the Becker piano and the desk at which Ivan Semenovich worked.

After the tour, the museum director Andriy Khavrus held a short literary event for the students, “Born to Create,” dedicated to the writer’s work, its significance and relevance, because the writer’s journalistic works, “The Uselessness of Great Russian Literature for Ukraine and Slavic Regions,” and “Ukrainianism on Literary Summons with Muscovy Region,” resonate with the present. It was in them that the modest teacher of Russian philology, Ivan Levitsky, 150 years ago, under the pseudonym “Nechuy,” spoke out against the violent Russification of Ukraine.