Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
An event took place in the Rivne Regional Museum of Local Lore on the eve of the Holodomor Victims' Remembrance Day, which cannot go unnoticed in the cultural, artistic and spiritual environment of those who, not by show, but in fact, value and honor the memory of their ancestors, customs and rituals associated with the deep history of our ancient people.
“How is it there? Or where do Ukrainian souls go…” This was the title of the unusual in its format lecture-event by the writer, religious scholar, researcher of the traditional culture of the Rivne region, and also the director of the Rivne Regional Center of Folk Art, Iryna Rachkovska-Bakovetska.
Iryna Rachkovska spoke about the religious beliefs of Ukrainians and Polish people, in particular, about the afterlife and the afterlife. Considering that this topic is largely taboo, especially among the older generation, the very fact of drawing attention to it is worthy of attention and encouragement.
So it was quite understandable that there was interest in the presentation of the second expanded reprint of Iryna Rachkovskaya's memorial book "Memorial Bread. Bread Eaten After Death". This book, by the way, is nominated for the Shevchenka Prize in 2025. The book collects modern photographs of memorial and ritual bread, the author's expeditionary and ethnographic material about them, as well as her poems written during the period of Russian aggression against Ukraine. This publication is about memorial bread as a symbol of life, because the grain, falling into the ground, sprouts to be born again and give life to humanity.
Local historian, teacher Mykola Bendyuk, director of the regional drama theater Volodymyr Petriv, ethnographer Alla Ukrainets, deputy of the regional council Olha Shustik, and Honored Worker of Culture Jozef Nikolchenko expressed their thoughts on the topic of the cult of the dead, the rituals associated with it, and Iryna Rachkovskaya's personal role in researching the topic.
Maksym PETROVYCH,
head of the 11th IP group
Yulia YUKHYMCHUK,
curator of the 11-IP group
