Educators of the Department of Ukrainian Studies and Humanities and second-year students of the International Faculty honored Ivan Kotliarevskyi at the Poltava Regional Universal Scientific Library, where the information class, organized by Maryna Fedorova, Head of the Local Lore Department of the I.P. Kotliarevskyi Poltava Regional Universal Scientific Library, was held on the occasion of the birthday anniversary of our outstanding Ukrainian. “Descendant will bow a joyful head above your “Aeneid” book”, - Volodymyr Sosiura wrote once. In every student who listened to the lecture this name still evokes a number of associations: the immortal Ukrainian young man Aeneas, and the beautiful Natalka, the heroine of the play, who became the progenitor of the new Ukrainian theater, and the lines “Will, father, rule ... “ of T. Shevchenko, who first predicted the world fame of Kotliarevskyi.
After all, Ivan Kotliarevskyi is a great pride of Ukraine. Without him, we would not have Taras Shevchenko, and without Shevchenko, would we exist in the world as a nation ?! Olena Pchilka compared Ivan Kotliarevskyi with the first spring flower that cheers up the weary earth, with the first swallow that “brought us spring”, with the first star that shone in the sky “in the dark day”…
In the local history department, students from Morocco also viewed with interest the rare books, paintings, sculptures, collages and installations dedicated to the author and his immortal works. Interested students drew parallels with the works of Virgil and Homer known to them.