Destroyed Photo, Injured Pages, Legendary "Katyusha" and Kosach's Easter Guests
The purpose of scientific research is the need to identify materials for biographies of members of the Frenkel family, who were once close friends of Mykhailo and Larisa Kosach, search for facts, original photographs, origins and ways of research, thinking about further research and analysis of possible and real achievements. Study of memoirs, documents, epistolary and establishment of the truth on the basis of available and for the first time searched in the process of studying authentic sources. Critical verification of misinterpretations in well-known publications on this topic. Communication with the descendants of Serhii, Jakov, Yevhen and Zakhar Frenkel, history of this family, which gave Ukraine bright representatives of the Ukrainian political nation (the Frenkel family includes Jews, Germans, Poles, Russians, and Ukrainians), who were destined not only to make a significant contribution to science, literature, pedagogy, and political life of their time, but also to undergo a lot of radiation in pre-October and Soviet times, having survived arrests, repressions, and some even executions. In-depth study of the materials of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Lesia Ukrainka Museum in Kyiv, important publications of other researchers on this topic, encyclopedic and monographic publications. Comparative analysis of the found elements of information accumulation and involvement of these results in the expansion of certain details, facts, personalities used with Lesya Ukrainka and her homeland, mutual friends - Kovalevsky - Degen, Krokhmal, Kistyakivsky, Kartashevsky, Fotii Krasitsky and, among others, literary circle "Pleiada". I am also talking about the stay of Kosachs in Kyiv, Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), St. Petersburg and Poltava region. The story involves many interesting, sometimes tragic episodes from the biography of the heroes, the communication of their descendants with the staff of the Kiev Museum of Lesya Ukrainka. Certain allusions ...