Markiyan Shashkevych: priest and educator

LODTRK, 2007. The episode of the program "Ukrainian Statemen" is dedicated to the Ukrainian educator, poet, writer, priest, and public figure Markiyan Shashkevych.

On the video: St. George's Archcathedral; Gospel; archival newsreel of St. George's Archcathedral; exposition of the "Mermaid of the Dniester" museum-reserve; manuscripts; publication of "Mermaid of the Dniester" (1837); Markiyan Shashkevych's museum-estate in Pidlyssa; archival video footage of the town hall; church of the Lviv Theological Seminary (destroyed during World War II); portrait of Markiyan Shashkevych; exhibits of the museum-estate; memorial tablet in honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of the "Mermaid of the Dniester" almanac on the building of the V. Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine; photograph by Yakov Holovatsky; monument to Markiyan Shashkevych in Lviv.

Commentators: poet, writer, political prisoner Ihor Kalynets; poet, candidate of historical sciences Petro Shkrabiuk; director of the Lychakiv Cemetery Museum Ihor Havrishkevych.

The film was written by: authors Anzhela Myhal, Yuriy Yevtushyk; editor Yuriy Yevtushyk; director Anzhela Myhal; cinematographers Yevhen Voznyak, Andriy Sladkov; editor Mykola Yereha, Oleksandr Fedoseyev.