The occupiers destroyed the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Yalta. Photo

The museum of the legend of Ukrainian poetry and prose Lesya Ukrainka in Crimea was destroyed by the occupiers. The criminal authorities of the peninsula removed most references to the writer, although after 2014 they still informed Crimeans about the history of her life on the peninsula.

The occupiers innovations were first reported by the Voice of Crimea, which monitored cultural institutions. They also showed the old and new plaques.

"On the building itself, where the museum was located, there are Soviet-era security and memorial plaques reminding us of Lesya Ukrainka's stay here in the late nineteenth century. However, the newest plastic plaque in front of the historic building says that the exhibition "Yalta. The Nineteenth Century (History, Music, and Literature)" and an exhibition dedicated to the architect of that era, Nikolai Krasnov. Not a word about Lesya Ukrainka," the journalists reported.

Earlier, on the second floor of the building, one could learn about the poetess's stay in Yalta. Now only rare photographs of the writer in the windows and Lesya Ukrainka's desk remind us of her.

Olga Kuryshko, Deputy Permanent Representative of the President in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, explained in a comment to Suspilne Krym that the occupiers systematically supplant references to Ukraine.

"In 2015, the museum was renamed the Yalta Historical Museum. There was no longer any mention of the fact that it was Lesya Ukrainka's museum. Then it was closed for a very long period of time for reconstruction. And recently it was reopened, under a different name, reconstructed, without the expositions that were there before," Kuryshko said.

She suggested that the occupiers could have destroyed or taken away the exhibition dedicated to the poetess. The appearance and content of the museum has been radically changed. Now it tells about Russian cultural figures who visited Yalta.

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