The exhibition "My Jealous Pain" is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Andriy Malyshko. The exhibition is prepared in chronological order, featuring exhibits from the archives of the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine and the Obukhiv District Museum of History and Local Lore.
Andriy Malyshko is a literary critic, poet, and author of the songs "My Teacher," "The Song of the Towel," and "Where Are You, My Path?" He was born in Obukhiv on November 14, 1912, to a shoemaker's family. He studied at the Kyiv Medical School and later transferred to the Kyiv Institute of Public Education, graduating in 1932. He worked as a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature in Ovruch, Zhytomyr region.
During the Second World War, he was a war correspondent for frontline newspapers and the partisan newspaper "For Soviet Ukraine," where Volodymyr Sosiura, Maksym Rylsky, and Pavlo Tychyna published their works. He was elected four times as a People's Deputy of the Ukrainian SSR, and worked as the executive editor of the Dnipro magazine in 1944-47. He died on February 17, 1970, at the age of 58, in the Feofaniya hospital.
On the video: Dmytro Paliy, deputy director of the Museum of Books and Printing of Ukraine, tells about the poet. The Obukhiv choir performs "The Song of the Towel" to music by Platon Maiboroda.