, that is, simon petlyura , indeed, from the very beginning of his public activity and journalistic workally interested in the cultural and artistic life, well, as a factor in the formation of the ukrainian people, the ukrainian nation, well, before the condition in general, yes, there was some kind of political independence, and that's why they really knew each other, i understand correctly that what koshyts collected then in the kuban, it was in these cossack villages, he - he made records, yes, and they too, they lost this archive, unfortunately , too, all of them are almost lost, that is , he managed to find about a thousand songs there, and he compiled such a collection, which even won a certain award at that time, in such... awards, but since these were all competitions organized by the russian side, this was still the time of the russian empire, that collection was lost somewhere, and oleksandr koshyts, when he was in exile, wrote that he reproduced these works from memory, and literally several of these sutokuban songs are preserved today in the archive of his winnipeg, but unfor

at the beginning of the century, well precisely as cultural diplomacy... what i managed to find in simon petlyura's publications as an art critic, he is very often simply called a theater critic in historiography, i counted about a hundred of his still unpublished publications in the rada newspaper, which were not only about the theater, there were theater reviews, and literature, music, other types of arts, and in particular one of his publications there was about... about the theater, where he stated that we need to declare ourselves in the world through theater, and this is 906 or the seventh year, it seems, that is, even then he would be betting the question that through culture and art we need to project, well, the ukrainian idea, the ukrainian people, well, but this is the first time to put it on the level of state policy, it was actually already done during the days of the directorate. and very successfully and indeed as such an innovative project, as i already said , even for the western world, there you have in the film a quote from one of the ministers, it seems to be nikita sh