York Baroque Exhibition: Anna Gorozhenko

Yorkshire Post

Anna Gorozhenko talks about her exhibition in York featuring period costumes made by Ukrainian historians and reconstruction experts, the exhibition will examine what 18th century York residents might have made of the Cossack state called ‘Hetmanat’ which is now modern day Ukraine – as well as how the Coassack region looked to the west for inspiration of culture. Anna is a journalist and author of historical novels who moved to York with her daughter last year after fleeing the war in Ukraine. She’s also created a historical documentary called History in Style about life in Kyiv in 1730-1750 telling the stories of real characters who lived in the Kyiv region, made with historians, museum workers and volunteer actors from Ukraine.

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00:00 My name is Anna Gorozenko.

00:01 I am living in New York, but I am a Ukrainian refugee.

00:05 I have been working for more than 20 years as a journalist, but also I am the creator

00:10 of the Ukrainian Baroque Project.

00:14 I stay here in Yorkshire, in New York, with my daughter.

00:17 She is eight years old.

00:19 I am very missing my husband, my mom, and also my colleagues on my Baroque Project.

00:28 I understand how important it is to say more about Ukrainian culture, and that is why I

00:35 decided to make an exhibition about the Ukrainian Baroque.

00:40 In this exhibition, there are portraits, displayed portraits from the Chernihiv Museum, costumes

00:46 of this period, and about links between York and Ukraine, and merchant links.

00:56 I think that people who visit this exhibition, they will much more know about who we are,

01:05 Ukrainians.

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