The exhibition 'Nekropolia na Bajkowa Góra. Polish traces at the Bajkowa cemetery in Kyiv" is devoted to the history of the necropolis, which is little known in Poland.

Kyiv is a city that hides many unobvious Polish traces. It was here that major Polish companies were represented in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Polish press was published and numerous Polish organisations and a Polish theatre were active here.

The Bajkowa Cemetery is one of them. It was established in 1834 and its name has nothing to do with fairy tales, but derives from the name of the Russian general Sergei Bajkov. This is because it was to him that the land around today's cemetery belonged in the early 19th century.

Many chapels designed by famous Kyiv architects, including Wladyslaw Horodecki, have been preserved in the necropolis. There are also several hundred tombstones with inscriptions in Polish. Among those buried here are the bookseller and publisher Leon Idzikowski, the lawyer Leonard Jankowski, the painter Wilhelm Kotarbiński, the photographer Włodzimierz Wysocki, the collector Józef Choynowski and the Kyiv mayor Józef Zawadzki. There are also graves of well-known Ukrainian citizens, such as the poetess Lesia Ukrainka or the aircraft designer Oleg Antonov. The exhibition definitely brings you closer to a place that is worth getting to know better.

Exhibition authors:
Author of the exhibition: Bartłomiej Gutowski
Photographs: Norbert Piwowarczyk, Bartłomiej Gutowski
Exhibition design: Barbara Kowalewska
Realisation: Perfect Events

Honorary patronage:
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Prof. Piotr Gliński

Exhibition locations:

23.10-4.12.2023 - Museum of the Eastern Lands of the Former Republic of Poland - Lublin - Poland
4.07-24.08.2023 - Museum of Chełmno Land - Chełmno - Poland
23.10-15.12.2022 - Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University - Warsaw - Poland
27.06-5.09.2022 - Dam - Niedzica - Poland
13-29.05.2022 - Lukiska square - Vilnius - Lithuania
9.03-30.04.2022 - Jan Olszewski Historical Museum of Skierniewice - Skierniewice, Poland Jana Olszewskiego - Skierniewice - Poland
7.12.2021-4.01.2022 - Kordegarda. Gallery of the National Centre of Culture - Warsaw - Poland

Link to EN catalogue:
https://polonika.pl/upload/2021/12/bajkowa-polski_pdf_online.pdf
ANG catalogue link:
https://polonika.pl/upload/2021/12/bajkowa-ang-online.pdf
UA catalogue link:
https://polonika.pl/upload/2021/12/bajkowa-ukr-online_2.pdf
LT catalogue link:
https://polonika.pl/upload/2022/11/baikovo-kapin%C4%97s_ lenk%C5%B3-p%C4%97dsakai-kyjivo-kapin%C4%97se-publication-exhibition-in-jez_-lithuanian_1.pdf

Google Art link to the exhibition:
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/2wUxnKHZBgOC6A

Video:
Necropolis on Bajkowa Góra. Polish traces at the Fairy-tale cemetery in Kyiv | Interview with Dr Bartłomiej Gutowski in the programme of the Polonika Institute Thursday at leisure

Meeting with the authors of the exhibition "Nekropolia na Bajkowej Góra", Skierniewic Historical Museum

PODCASTS:

Ours were here to listen to on the Polonics Institute website

Cultural broadcasts - PODCAST to be listened to on the website of the National Cultural Centre

	exhibition boards	PDF file 36 MB	download
	exhibition catalogue (polish)	PDF file 7 MB	download
	exhibition catalogue (eng.)	PDF file 6,5 MB	download
	каталог виставки (ukr.)	PDF file 7 MB	download
	parodos katalogas (lit.)	PDF file 35 MB	download