Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych was a Ukrainian theater and public figure, engineer, inventor, writer, historian, translator, ethnographer, art critic, playwright, screenwriter, composer, musicologist, vi
Hnat Khotkevych in early 1900s
A group of Ukrainian writers gathered in Poltava to inaugurate a monument to Ivan Kotliarevsky, 1903. From left: Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Vasyl Stefanyk, Olena Pchilka, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Starytsky, Hnat Khotkevych, Volodymyr Samijlenko.
H. Khotkevych playing bandura in a student play in 1899
The Kobzar ensemble at the XIIth Archeological Conference in Kharkiv in 1902.
Leonid Hryhorovych Haydamaka was a Ukrainian bandurist. has left his impression on the development of bandura art in the 20th century.
Hnat Khotkevych
…of his compositions for the bandura was prepared but was also lost by the publishing house. Only a handful of students completed these courses such as Leonid Haydamaka, O. Herashchenko, O. Hayevsky, I. Oleshko, and Hryhory Bazhul. Most were arrested in the early 1930s, however, some found their way out to the West…
Leonid Haydamaka with H. Khotkevych and the Kharkiv bandura quartet
Haydamaka's Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments
Haydamaka's Orchestra of Ukrainian Folk Instruments