On October 14, on the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, the full edition of the Chronicle of Samiylo Velychko was presented in Baturyn.

Yesterday, patrons from the kmbs community who supported the publication met with the project initiator, Russian researcher Tetiana Tairova-Yakovleva.

Tetiana began researching the monument in 2012, and the revival of the document in its entirety became possible thanks to years of cooperation between Ukrainian and Russian scientists. During the meeting, the researcher thanked the patrons and emphasized that the tradition of supporting cultural projects is very characteristic of Ukraine, and she is pleased to see that it continues to live on.

In turn, kmbs dean Oleksandr Savruk thanked Tetiana for her fruitful work and the opportunity to access unique monuments of Ukrainian history stored in Russian archives. He also noted: "Coming out of the Soviet and post-Soviet period, when we talk about people, we often resort to extremes, whether a person was good or bad. This makes history uninteresting, and we cannot understand — what kind of people actually lived then? In your work, they all come to life: they fight, make mistakes, search, they are strong and weak — exactly as they were then."

Now the Chronicle of Samiylo Velychko is over 1000 pages stylized as old prints, introducing us to previously lost fragments, illustrations, the only original portrait of Demyan Ignatovych, and other Ukrainian figures.

In total, benefactors collected about 1 million UAH for the publication of this historical artifact.

As Andriy Melnyk, a patron and kmbs graduate, explained, managers learned about the unique project from the director of the publishing house "Klio" Vira Solovyova. And after meeting with Oleksandr Savruk and researcher Tetiana Tairova-Yakovleva, they realized how important it is. After all, the future can only be built through interaction and clarification of values in such interaction.

Symbolically, at the meeting on October 15, on the Day of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, kmbs donated a copy of the Chronicle to the Alma Mater library fund, returning the work of its graduate — Samiylo Velychko — to its native walls.

Patrons from the kmbs community supported the publication of the Chronicle of Samiylo Velychko