Ukrainian stained glass revival
1964 - Ukrainian stained glass window destroyed by the Russian authorities: A group of Ukrainian artists, including designer Alla Horska, is working on a stained glass project for Shevchenko University in the city of Kyiv. She takes care of the sketches and the prototype. As soon as the work was assembled, the Soviet authorities, judging it hostile, destroyed it. Why this racket around a simple stained glass window? The stained glass window depicts Shevchenko, a 19th century Ukrainian poet, with his fist raised and opposed to the domination of Ukraine by the Russian Empire (already!). In the poet's arms is Ukraine, ...