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THE KORCHMA TARAS BULBA RESTAURANT CHAIN OFFERS NOT ONLY EXQUISITE AND DELICIOUS FOOD, BUT ALSO AUTHENTIC DESIGN AND DÉCOR COMPARABLE TO THAT OF A UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES. NO WONDER THAT OUR RESTAURANTS ARE OFTEN USED AS FILM SETS. IN OUR RESTAURANT IN NEW YORK CITY, THE TV CHANNEL RTVI IS CURRENTLY FILMING THE COMPASS OF A GOURMET, IN OUR KYIV RESTAURANT, MEMBERS OF THE POPULAR TELSA BOY BAND ORGANIZED A FEAST THAT MADE ITS WAY INTO THEIR MUSIC VIDEO, AND IN MOSCOW, OUR RESTAURANT HAS BECOME A SET OF THE AT DINNER TV SHOW. ONE OF ITS GUESTS WAS A POPULAR TV ANCHOR, ACTRESS, AND SEX SYMBOL OF RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, RUSLANA PYSANKA. SHE IS KNOWN NOT ONLY AS A GOURMET AND A GOOD COOK, BUT ALSO AS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK CULINARY TEMPTATIONS FROM KYIVAN RUS. THE BULBA NEWS JUST COULDN’T MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH HER. RUSLANA PYSANKA: “SUSHI MAKES YOU CRAVE BORSCH…”
– Ruslana, you are starring in films and TV vegetables should be crispy, not overdone, and Ukraine. In my book, only lemon is an oversea programs, writing books, traveling, and now you there should be lots of grease… As a result, you product… are taking part in the At Dinner show… How do enjoy food and benefit from it. In a word, I like you find time for all this, and how do you find the Ukrainian cuisine. In my book I wrote, “Sushi – You were once on a strict diet and succeeded energy? Where does it come from? just makes you crave borsch…” Russians and to lose weight. What would you recommend to Ukrainians can’t satisfy their appetites with those women who want to keep fit, but aren’t ready – I have neither time nor energy. Sometimes sushi. We aren’t used to it. If a man is offered to limit themselves in food? I wonder how I manage all this. I’m joking. I’m borsch prepared by me and sushi, he definitely happy that I’m needed. Men would understand would choose the first. And if it comes with lard, – I think that if you want to keep fit without me (she laughs). An artist is like a man – he gets garlic, pepper, pickled cucumbers on a sandwich, limiting yourself in food, you should start up and goes. If people are waiting for me, I go. It and thirty drops of a strong tasty drink, then a exercising. I understood that exercising helps could be two flights per day, and I could be at the man would certainly choose this. And I choose you burn all the fatty borsches, porridges, meat other end of the world. Nevertheless, I would go this too. dishes, and so on. When you exercise, you can and if required, I am happy to serve people… allow yourself to eat any food! – But dieticians say that the Ukrainian cuisine – Recently you presented your culinary book. is very heavy… – Do you exercise? This topic seems to be especially dear to you. What food do you like and what comprises the daily diet – The Ukrainian cuisine is considered very – I do, from time to time. The swimming pool of Ruslana Pysanka? heavy, but I try to adjust it to all my needs. I is the best place for getting rid of extra fat. Diving like borsch, lard, and varenyky. It’s important is the best massage… The most important is that – I’ve written a book about Ukrainian cuisine, to know your limit, because if you eat too many it’s not expensive. The only thing is that after the and, to say the truth, I have tried it all. There are varenyky, it will definitely make you feel bad. But pool you feel very hungry. That’s why you should a lot of recipes, Ukrainian cuisine makes up the you also can get protein poisoning from eating take along some fruit to satisfy your craving. core menu at your restaurants, but nevertheless too many lobsters. So it depends. Be careful not every housewife introduces her own nuances to overeat. If you eat an entire Kyiv cake, you – As far as we know, you spend most of your and findings to the recipes. That’s why I like to will be immediately hospitalized with pancreatic time in Moscow now. Did you manage to adjust to eat what I prepare by myself, because I know failure. I think that the Ukrainian cuisine is the megalopolis, did you find friends from the large for sure what I put in it. If I make borsch, the healthy, because we eat products grown here, in Ukrainian diaspora here? GUEST | 3
– Yes, I have a lot of friends here. Mainly they a slip between the cup and the lip. The Ukrainian soul. I do as I feel. And then I have no pangs of are Muscovites, although Ukrainians by origin. I Vyshka has just finished, where I took 5th place conscience. don’t socialize only with the diaspora. My friends out of 16 contenders. I think this is a good result. need to be good people: this is my main principle Now my husband and I plan to dance as a couple – What is your favorite hobby? Once in an of communication. Living in a megalopolis takes in another TV project. We are having as much fun interview you said that you liked powerful and so much energy, that’s why I try to spend more as we can (she laughs). beautiful cars. What car do you drive now? time in Kyiv. It’s also very tiring with all the traffic jams, bustle, fuss, and stress; therefore, I moved – You appeared in quite a few films before. Do – I have one good car. It’s an Acura jeep. to the country (she laughs). There, among birches you get any offers from producers now? and flowers, I enjoy myself. – Once you were named the Ukrainian sex – There are always some offers, but I’m not symbol, weren’t you? – What are the main projects you are engaged always interested in them. In this respect I’m in? very choosy. If I don’t like something, or I don’t – I keep the title even today. It’s for life and understand it, or I don’t see myself somewhere, it’s necessary to live up to it. No one surpassed – I will soon start the filming of a series. God I just refuse. It could be for a film by the best me yet (she laughs). willing, everything will be fine, but there is many director in the world, but I choose to listen to my Text: Stepan HRYTSIUK
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The life of Dmitriy Salita from New York hasn’t been easy. But neither the difficult childhood nor the life hardships of the poor immigrant broke his spirit. Now Salita is a successful boxer and a promising promoter. Looks like another “American Dream” came true. Dmitriy was born in 1982 in Odesa. When he was nine, he moved to the United States. The main reason behind his moving to America was the discrimination of Jews. His brother Michael, nine years older than Dmitriy, was often insulted and thus had to fight. Immigration to the USA was another trying time for Dmitriy Salita. In 1999, came another blow – his mother died of cancer. His daily life was a real test on his strength of character. Dima went to school in the same clothes he wore in Odesa. Because of this and also because of his poor English, his classmates mocked him ruthlessly. This made Salita learn to defend himself. First, he signed up for karate classes, and then his brother brought him to a boxing club. It was just the beginning. Dima was regularly summoned to the principal’s office. Several times he was expelled from school, but that didn’t dent his self- esteem. So he began to fight back the bullies at school. In boxing, things went very well for Dmitriy Salita. A native of Ukraine is the winner of the prestigious Golden Gloves tournament, an American equivalent of the Olympic Games. Dmitriy Salita revealed the secrets of his success for the readers of Bulba News. SALITA: MY SUCCESS FORMULA IS FAITH IN GOD PLUS HARD WORK
– Dmitriy, have you been to Odesa after moving to America?
– I was invited to Kyiv, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk several times. But because of my hectic life I couldn’t make time for this. Hopefully, soon I’ll go to Ukraine on business.
– What do you mean?
– I plan to do a boxing show in Ukraine, probably in my hometown Odesa. I had preliminary talks with some influential people. Talented Ukrainian and American boxers will take part in this show. American television is interested in this idea. Ukraine has great boxers and passionate fans.
– Your childhood in Odesa wasn’t easy, was it?
– Are you asking about the anti-Semitism? Yes, it’s true. At that time no one in Odesa openly declared their faith. I’d never seen a man wearing a kippah (a religious Jewish headwear, a yarmulke). I didn’t even know what it is. Anti-Semitism in Odesa is a life fact. Now everything has changed. There is a huge Jewish community with its synagogues and schools in Ukraine. Fortunately, the government of Ukraine recognizes all religions. The town of Uman is located in Ukraine – it’s a place of pilgrimage for many Hasidic Jews from around the world.
– How did America welcome you?
– Immigrant life is a hard, immigrants everywhere face difficulties. It was harder for my parents to live in immigration, than it was for me. I was able to grasp the new culture and learn the language faster that they were. When I started going to school, I had the clothes I wore in Ukraine. Because of this, and also because of my poor English, I was often mocked. I had to learn to defend myself. Because of the difficult life I had as an immigrant, I started training in boxing. I began boxing at the age of 13 in the local boxing club Starret City, which was led by Jimmy O’Pharrow. The coach, an old man, treated me very well, as if I were his son. Jimmy is no longer with us, but for me he will always be
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a saint. I grew up among many different people. Thanks to boxing, I achieved a lot in my life.
– You spent your childhood in Odesa, but grew up in America. What is your identity now: Ukrainian or American?
– Most part of my adult life I spent in America, but I closely communicate with the US Russian-speaking community.
– What do you do in your free time?
– I watch boxing on TV (he laughs). Seriously, I like going out with my friends, going to the movies.
– When was the last time you applied your boxing skills outside the ring?
– The last time I was involved in a street fight was when I was 9. I don’t like street conflicts. I think it’s indecent. I try to avoid places where it can happen. When I feel that I am losing control over a situation and a fight – Yevgeniy is ready to fight with high-level boxers. time Olympic champion is a top class performer. is about to break out, I give a warning and Khitrov has good experience in competitive matches Lomachenko proved this in the ring. His technique and then call the police. and wins on the highest level in amateur boxing. His psychological training are on the level of the greatest skills are better than the skills of most boxers in his boxers in the world. The Ukrainian boxing school – Does your worldview influence your weight category. Yevgeniy is a future professional proved that it’s one of the best schools. Lomachenko occupation? boxing world champion. has potential to become a boxing legend. He needs two or three years to get used to the professional boxing – I’m the first Jewish boxer who refuses to – To become a star in the USA, you need to please style. After this, he will be ready to fight with any fight on Saturdays. In 2000, when I was 18, I was the local audience. Do Americans like the boxing style world champion. competing in the US Championship. Everything of Khitrov? was fine; I won the semi-final and entered the – My last question is personal. What helped you final scheduled for Saturday. My rabbi said I – Sure! Yevgeniy has a very good style for turn from a poor immigrant into a successful American shouldn’t fight on the Sabbath. I didn’t know professional boxing. He is aggressive and often ends citizen? what to do. But a journalist interviewing me his fights with a knockout. This is what fans and helped me. He talked with the commission. My television like. He should receive the right and rational – Everything that happened in my life is God’s fight was postponed and I won! By the way, it’s education and learn the subtleties of professional blessing. My parents taught me to like work. I’m much more difficult not to fight on Saturday boxing. I don’t think that it would take lots of time. very persistent in achieving my goals. I think that my at the beginning of a career. If you are a more He just needs some experience. Skills he already has. success formula is faith in God plus hard work. experienced boxer, almost all main fights are held If everything is fine, he will be able to fight for the title after the Sabbath. (Dmitriy Salita following the of world champion in approximately two years. If he Text: Oleh NALYVAIKO Torah and the commandments doesn’t enter the ring reaches his potential, he will be a great star. on Saturday and holidays. When he participates in competitions that are held Saturday evenings, he – In your opinion, what are the main differences arrives at the hotel with his rabbi before Saturday, between the American and the European boxing schools? where they take every measure not to break the rules of Sabbath by accidentally switching an electrical – European boxing is very technical. European device, opening a door lock, or talking on the phone, boxers are often very well-trained technically. for example, – Auth.) American boxing isn’t as technical; it’s more undirected. I wouldn’t say that this or that style is – You’ve contributed to the moving of better. There are outstanding boxers in both schools. Yevgeniy Khitrov to America and the start Now many boxers form the post-Soviet countries are of his career as a professional boxer there successfully fighting in the professional boxing ring. (Yevgeniy Khitrov is the amateur boxing world champion, born in Kryvyi Rih. Incidentally, – Last year one more Ukrainian boxer made his before his debut in the professional matches, debut in America – Vasyl Lomachenko. Did you Yevgeniy met with his fans and American watch this match? journalists in the New York Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant, - Auth.) What do you think – Of course I watched it. In America, there was about the potential of the young boxer? a lot of interest in Lomachenko’s debut. A two-
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MY GREECE VACATION CAN BE DESCRIBED BY THE PHRASE “A BIG FAT GREEK ADVENTURE.” IN THE AIRPORT OF ATHENS, I JOINED A SMALL BUDGET TRAVEL GROUP FROM KYIV. THERE WERE EIGHT OF US. A PERFECT COMPANY FOR A GOOD TIME. IF I WERE A MAN, I WOULD CALL OUR GROUP “SEVEN GIRLS AND ME.” BUT THE ONLY MAN AMONG US WAS YURIY, THE ORGANIZER OF THE TRIP AND THE HEAD OF THE CLUB. YURIY AND I HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR MANY YEARS THROUGH OUR JOURNALISM. I HAVE NEVER MET SUCH A ROLLING STONE LIKE HIM BEFORE. HE ACTIVELY TRAVELS AROUND THE WORLD AND KNOWS WELL HOW TO PLAN TRIPS IN A PROPER WAY, HOW, WITHOUT OVERPAYING, TO SEE INTERESTING FAR-OFF CITIES AND PICTURESQUE LANDMARKS OR TO RELAX AT THE SEASIDE. VACATION PACKAGES TO ALL THESE PLACES ARE SOLD BY TRAVEL AGENCIES FOR EXORBITANT PRICES. THAT’S WHY I EMBARKED ON “A BIG FAT GREEK ADVENTURE” ORGANIZED BY YURIY. THE EMOTIONAL HELLAS: ATHENS, THE CAKE OF SANTORINI, THE MINOAN-HUTSULIAN CULTURE…
surrounding ruins and the panorama of modern months in advance, cost me and my fellow travelers Athens Impressions Greece from the hilltop. That was in the Acropolis only 37.5 euros. where we first met very peaceful stray Greek cats. Donkeys and Quads Instead of Carts “I keep getting this feeling… that I am not in “Is the donkey a symbol of Oia?” I asked myself, Europe, but… in one of the Third World countries. being lost among many souvenirs decorated with On the other hand, you can also see something like Seaward ho! Bible images of the animals seen in the island town. this in the Italian Calabria…” This was my loud On one of the most expensive Greek islands of complaint about the dirty uptown of the capital of A seven-hour voyage on a cruise shook my Santorini, in its capital Thira, we stayed in the hotel Hellas. Our hotel was located in a neighborhood feelings. I was sitting in a chair with a book on my for 17 euros per person. whose streets were overflowing with trash. On lap and my legs up on a deck handrail, periodically Though Thira is the capital of the island, one of the side streets leading to a metro station a looking at water’s surface around the ferry. People it doesn’t differ very much from Oia: the same homeless family set up their residence. There was a were busy with different things: eating, drinking, miniature pastry-like creamy-white houses, and the woman’s mirror lying next to children’s shoes. sleeping, walking around. Several fellow travelers same churches with blue domes. The only difference But I was in the minority – only one woman of mine sipped cognac at a table. Perfect calmness. is that more tourists prefer Thira. from Kyiv shared my opinion. The others were Our company formed groups of three people to be On the very first evening we went to watch the glad that in this September time they changed led by Yuriy and went for a walk on the five-storey sunset in Oia. Yura informed us that only in Oia the rainy and cold Ukrainian capital for the hot liner with pubs, restaurants, stores, TVs. the sun sinks below the horizon very impressively. Greece, and were excited about everything they We sat down at two joined tables on the upper In fact, to welcome this phenomenon hundreds saw. And we saw quite a bit, traveled a lot and very deck of the ship. On one of the lower open decks of tourists from different corners of the world fast, but my initial impression was overshadowed a young woman lounged wrapped in a sleeping bag come over, settling themselves on the ground by the magnificent ruins of the Acropolis of protecting her from a piercing sea wind. Young under the Greek flag. As soon as the sun begins its Athens situated on the Acropolis hill. On and on people and passengers under 50 preferred open-air solemn procession into the depths of the Aegean we went. I won’t be describing the Greek ancient liner places. Elder people chose to admire the sea Sea, champagne corks outshoot in the heights ruins with the remains of its Temples, Odeon of views from behind the windows. accompanied by loud applause. Herodes Atticus, Theatre of Dionysus and other We took a wrong staircase and found ourselves “Hmm ... I thought the donkey is a symbol of sights, because everyone can visit these tourist in closed premises for VIP passengers. The liner the entire island of Santorini,” I summarized when I sites. During our Saturday visit to the Acropolis, personnel immediately showed us out in the saw sculptures of donkeys for the first time in Thira, we met crowds of Russian, German, Italian, opposite direction. On our tour of the ship we and sedately marching animals with tourists seated English, American, and Chinese tourists. We lost stopped on the deck of the second floor where the on their backs. Poor donkeys patiently bear the fate three people for a while when wind ran the show, fluttering our clothes and hair. of the so-called tour-buses going along the stone we were admiring the I was overwhelmed with the unknown pleasant block track 300 m down to the sea, and climbing feelings of unity with the ocean space. And I tried back. In the center of Thira Greeks ride tourists on to keep my mind off passing thoughts about the quad bikes. Titanic or the passengers who ended up in the The volcanic island of Santorini, one of the depths of the sea from the Cyclades group of fifty thousand islands, with all its novel “Ocean Sea” by half-wild beaches on the Akrotiri peninsula, with the modern Italian sand of black and red volcanic rocks color, and with writer Alessandro a still active volcano in the middle of the Aegean Sea Baricco. looks like a fabulous countryside. When you look The sea voyage from from the height of island towns of Thira or Oia, you Athens to Santorini, can see the stretching seascapes, overwhelmed with carefully planned their unreality. The quiescence of the volcano is for several rather dubious. Last time it reminded about itself at the beginning of twentieth century. Its historic BC eruption buried the advanced Minoan civilization. A powerful striking force from the Aegean Sea to the Ionian and to Crete cut short the life of the Minoans. Crete is our next destination on the cruise. TRAVELLING | 7
Minoans, ancestors of the Hutsuls?
“Look, that’s a Hutsulian pattern!” I exclaimed when I saw the artifacts of the Minoan civilization in the Museum of Archeology in Heraklion city on the island of Crete. I knew long before that creative ideas and energies cross in outer space. But I never thought they did so in such a way: Minoan pottery was designed with the native and familiar patterns of Ukrainian highlanders. Any European queen would be jealous of the ancient women’s jewelry. “They were quite the inventors, those Minoans!” My roommate Iryna claimed delightfully behind my back. I turned around. Iryna stood next to a huge coffin with a special deepening for a head. With our newly acquired knowledge from the museum, we preceded by bus to the ruins of the most ancient European civilization – the Minoan Palace of Knossos – excavated in the early twentieth century. The unique frescoes on its walls were a testament to the culture of happy people: they are colorful and vital. The ancient cobbled road led to the Palace of Konossos. And I thought that the most ancient cobbled road was on Via Appia in Roma. The Minoans outdid modern civilization not only in that. The Palace of Knossos had perfect water supply and sewage systems and the oldest toilet in the world. Only a round hole remained from the ancient toilet bowl. The tourists vigorously took pictures of the throne of the wise and fair king Minos. The modern copy of this throne decorates the International Court in the Hague. Leper Island
We sunbathed on the beaches of Hersonises, Crete, where we lived in apartments, swam in the warm clear water of the Ionian Sea, and traveled a lot. September is a great time for a vacation – not so many beachgoers, but the Greek sun is still hot. A few days after visiting Heraklion with its ruins of the Minoan civilization, we went to Agios Nikolas by bus, and then to Mirabello Bay, on the island of Spinalonga, by boat. A small elongated island, it is all that remains of the city submerged after the earthquake. In the sixteenth century the Venetians erected a fortress on the island. A century later the Turks built a village next to the fortress. In the first half of the twentieth century, the island of Spinalonga became a shelter for deported lepers. Then we walked on the straight and winding paths of the island, climbed fortress walls, ate homemade lunches at the beach tables. Then we drank the aromatic Greek wine contemplating the open landscapes. We surely did enjoy our “Big Fat Greek Adventure”...
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ARTISTIC EXPERIMENT: UKRAINIAN ARTIST PAINTED 300 IMAGES OF COSSACK MAMAY He is always depicted with a moustache and a forelock, a pipe in his mouth, accompanied by a loyal friend – his horse. This is the image of a legendary historic character – Cossack Mamay – in the paintings of the Ukrainian artist Orest Skop. He has dedicated more than thirty years of his life to painting Cossack Mamay. He has accomplished quite a feat: he produced nearly three hundred Mamays! Mr Skop says that his strange passion has a unique explanation. When he learned about the murder of kobza players and lyrists by the Stalin regime in 1934, he promised to paint a different Mamay for every murdered soul. Now his paintings of the charismatic Cossack have spread all around the world. They are part of both museum and private collections. One of the Cossacks has even made its way to Hillary Clinton, a former US Secretary of State. The Inception Buddhism and the Origin of Mamay
In 1968, when I was at school, my classmate who sat next to me told me that Mamay looks so zen-like – his tranquility is reminiscent of Buddhism. If there was a painting of Mamay in his house. In the background of the picture, we say that we are an Indo-European nation, because of the Sanskrit and our girls were seeing off the Cossacks who were going on a march. When a museum ancient roots, then we may quite possibly have their genes. The tribes were on worker came to their house, he said that it was a rarity and that it belonged in a the move; somebody might have seen a drawing in India, then came here and museum. I never saw that painting, but I kept thinking about it; I saw created something similar. It could have been 500, 1,000, or even more years it with my imagination in many variations… Time passed, and I was ago. Have a look, Cossack Mamay sits in the typical “Turkish” pose, his legs are asked to paint Cossack Mamay as a birthday gift. I completed crossed. There, you can find many instances of this. His clothes, though, might one painting, then some more… Later I read that in 1934, near have been borrowed from the Cossack period. No wonder that Mamay was Kharkiv, Communists shot three hundred blind kobza players. depicted in the same way at all times. We, for example, don’t wonder at the This is a true historical fact, since there are documents to prove canonic icon of Our Lady, who usually embraces the little boy. I repeat: it. So I set myself a task to create a series of paintings dedicated this was an amulet held in every house. to the innocent executed people. Initially, I gave each of them a number, but once Cossacks asked me in my dream, “Why are you doing this? Free people don’t bear numbers…” Then Creative Energy and National I divided one painting into three hundred squares. Upon painting a new character, I would cover Identity another square with paint. When I painted these works, it seemed as if were emitting some energy. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to create Cossack Mamay so many Cossacks… I would have become bored or lazy, but nothing like that happened. I I close my eyes and I see Mamay. He would enter into a special magic comes to me by himself, that’s why all state and contemplate the images are different. You know, the how I could Ukrainians didn’t create this character create a randomly; he has a protective function. painting for When Cossacks went to war, and there every lost were no men in the house, a painting soul. The main thing of Mamay was hung on the wall… is that each painting should be There were three patrons: Our Lady, unique. This is one point. But Saint Nicholas, and Mamay. Now there is another one. We speak I’m holding a book in my hands. about globalization, art becomes the There, a researcher collected all same everywhere, because two spots the paintings of Mamay kept and a line are considered fashionable. in Ukrainian museums. For This is already avant-garde. When the sure, this is a phenomenon! euro was introduced, national currencies It seems that they are disappeared… And this characterizes like icons, on one what is going on with modern art hand, and like secular very well. The motif I’m working paintings, on the with is national. It’s important for other. Indeed, it was me, because Ukraine has a rich a continuation of mythology and legends that need the icon-painting to be promoted and popularized. tradition, but with There are a lot of things which, the additions of a when you take them out of the bandura, a horse, a chest, they would surprise the pipe, girls, a song… world. Even at the smallest All these symbols gallery in the world there are added some magic. French, German, Japanese, Oriental paintings, but there are no Ukrainian ones. So, we should CULTURE | 9
conquer the world with our distinctive art and ideology. I decided how, in my example of the artist Mykhaylo Boychuk who started a new artistic trend. own way, I could popularize our national distinctive art and traditions of painting. He was shot because a new genre of the Ukrainian art emerged. This was I remind you that our pride, singer Ruslana, performed her Wild Dances to the an act of the totalitarian regime that in no way could let Ukraine stand out. tunes of the kolomyika (Ukrainian dance and song) and won the Eurovision Song Once, in Paris, artists saw the works of Boychuk and his followers, and so the Contest because she stood out among the others. There had been nothing like this Mexican revolutionary art appeared. When in the 1930s they came to the in the contest before, that’s why she broke into it like a breeze of fresh air. Soviet Union, their first question was, “Where is our master?” and they were told, “He has been shot.” Some people have called my art kitsch… It is for art critics to assess whether I did well or not. But I uncovered and developed The Formation of Culture this motif. I continue to paint, but how much more I will paint, I don’t know. I have been painting these Cossacks for 33 years. God only knows how many For me, portraying the Mamay character is the work of my life. I do more I will be able to make. my work, somebody else does theirs… And so, brick by brick, our culture is being built. I don’t support borrowings or some foreign tendencies. I support TEXT: Stepan HRYTSIUK individuality. Borrowing foreign styles isn’t interesting at all. There is an PHOTO: Yuriy HELYTOVYCH 10 | MEDIA ABOUT US
A DAY IN SOHO, A NIGHT IN UKRAINE
By JULIA MOSKIN a word meaning “tavern” in Ukrainian. cucumber is simply dressed with smetana, thick At Korchma Taras Bulba in SoHo, the first Farm implements hang from the ceiling; but light sour cream; dumplings large (pirogi) United States outpost of a chain of colorful the friendly servers are in folkloric dress, and small (vareniki) are stuffed with various Ukrainian restaurants, it’s not a question of including embroidered bodices, head wreaths cheese-vegetable combinations: caramelized whether to have a round of shots, only how and flowing knickers tucked into high boots; onions, savory cabbage, earthy mushrooms. The many and in what flavors. (Cranberry, ginger, vintage Soviet-era agro-porn adorns the most luscious dessert is the syrniki, lace-edged horseradish and lemon are the best. Bacon is bathroom walls. (Think Bettie Page as a farm pancakes of sweet cottage cheese and raisins, the worst, by a wide margin.) girl in flirtatious poses around the barnyard.) fried crisp in butter. These double as brunch on These places are popular in Moscow, In American terms, the restaurant is the Sunday, when the restaurant offers free cooking where most of them are, because they serve equivalent of a Cracker Barrel plopped down lessons for children. affordable, cozy, rustic meals in a dining scene in Manhattan, with the servers wearing Yes, Korchma Taras Bulba is partly a kitschy that’s increasingly glossy, expensive and overalls and trucker caps and trying to act Ukrainian theme park marketed to Russians, globalized. (It’s routine for two people to spend “country.” But the food is good enough to and now, to the world. But the restaurants’ $600 on a mediocre French bistro dinner or a make the schtick palatable. Especially at this colorful founder, Yuri Beloyvan, is indeed sushi omakase menu in that city.) Also, with time of year, Korchma Taras Bulba’s savory Ukrainian, and devotes part of his fortune to Ukrainian dumplings, spicy vodka, black bread vegetable soups, smoked fish and expertly preserving Ukrainian language and culture. and house-made sausages, Korchma Taras made dumplings taste just right. One pillar of that culture is a final slug of Bulba “pushes all the right Slavic buttons,” The best way to attack the enormous menu horilka (vodka) offered free, for the road. (An said a Russian friend. is to start with a plate of salo, creamy salt-cured accompanying pickle is optional.) It sends But what if you don’t have Slavic buttons? pork belly that is an iconic food of Ukraine. you out with a warm sense of having been It’s still fun, especially because the kitchen sends It is dusted with black pepper or paprika and welcomed, fed and appreciated, even after out good versions of traditional food alongside arrayed with sour black bread, horseradish the check is paid. And that, even more than the shots and beers that keep arriving from the and mustard; it is also served with each shot, a serenade with balalaika music at Sunday bar. (In many so-called Russian restaurants in thick slices wrapped around a tiny pickled brunch, is a rare experience. in New York, food and service are notably cucumber. slapdash.) Think of it as a performance and a There is a halfhearted kale salad at the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant, a nostalgic pageant of a bucolic SoHo branch, but over all the menu here is the 357 West Broadway (Broome Street), SoHo; 212-510-7510, Ukraine, where peasants were happy and pigs same as it is in Moscow. This is good and bad; tarasbulba.us. were plentiful (and where the relationship on one hand, vegans and the gluten-phobic RECOMMENDED Infused vodkas; salo (salt-cured pork between Moscow and Kiev was stable). will not find much to eat; on the other, some belly); dumplings; holodets; sorrel soup; potato pancakes; A mild but pleasant sense of unreality sets old-school dishes that have fallen off American pork chop; smetannik; syrniki; honey cake. in immediately upon arrival. A poster for the menus are enshrined here, like chicken Kiev 1962 Hollywood movie “Taras Bulba” faces the and caviar with blini. A dish I’d go back for is PRICES $2 to $25. entrance; the film was one of many about the holodets, shredded beef and pork encased in Ukrainian folk hero invented by Nikolai Gogol savory jellied consomm ; you eat it in slices, OPEN Sunday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday and in 1835. (But this is the only one with Tony with horseradish. Saturday until midnight. Curtis and Yul Brynner.) At various times, Those dishes are good, but many main courses Bulba has been depicted as fighting against disappoint: Chewy beef stroganoff and bland RESERVATIONS Accepted. Poland, the Russian czar, the Ottoman Empire chicken tabaka don’t represent the high points of WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Accessible from the street; some and, more recently, Vladimir Putin. Slavic cuisine. Those who love dairy can wallow corners will be tight in a wheelchair. Restrooms are spacious. But there is no hint of strife in the korchma, in it here. A sharp “spring” salad of radishes and NEWS FROM “KORCHMA”| 11 THE BIG KOLIADA IN KORCHMA As no other nation, Ukrainians party during the celebration of the Christmas holidays. It was once again demonstrated by the Korchma Taras Bulba restaurant chain. This year a really big Christmas carol festival – Koliada – was organized there. Guests were entertained both by the vertep performed by Korchma’s staff and the Malanka that was brought to Moscow for this occasion by the Hutsuls from Western Ukraine. In one restaurant the Devil, the Angel, Herod, and other characters acted out skits on the Messiah’s nativity, in others folk artists staged a humoristic show where the main characters were the She-Goat, Basil, the Doctor, and good-for-nothing girl Malanka. The celebration lasted practically for a week. During this time performers visited all the restaurants of Korchma Taras Bulba. Of course, guests of the establishments join the carolers. Then, the shchedrivky (Ukrainian carols) were heard even in the streets, and the very performance lasted late into the night. The flavored moonshine vodka – samohon – that was specially made in Korchma for the New Year celebration fueled the carolers. According to Ukrainian tradition, all the guests were treated to a shot of it. The festival was celebrated in the Kyiv restaurant in a grandiose way. There, carolers acted out skits twice and gathered the greatest number of people. The winners of the show “Battle of the Choruses,” Lviv performers led by the singer Ruslana, visited the last performance in Korchma. Amazed, they also joined the Malanka play. Together with the folk theater they sang carols and danced in a ring, entertained guests and participated in the scenario staging of the fest. The party was wild. The Korchma clients were fascinated by the guests. People sang along with them, danced in a ring, filmed and took pictures with young rising stars on their phones. They couldn’t believe that the best chorus of the country came to wish them Merry Christmas!
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mobilization station for journalists, who kept up a running commentary, using our free Wi-Fi and enjoying the restaurant’s dishes. We did everything to create the most comfortable atmosphere for the media representatives so that they could freely report on the current events. In the evenings the restaurant’s workers went to Khreshchatyk St. to offer people free tea and hot pastries. By the way, the color of the flags and party affiliation were not taken into consideration. No matter The winter has turned out to be a who it was – a politician or an average vibrant and controversial period for citizen, a journalist or a policeman, an Ukraine. Suddenly, thousands of concerned opponent of the Euromaidan or its staunch supporter – it was important for us to composition spectators burst onto the stage of the mineralization 1-2 g/l political theater. As usual, Kyiv’s Maidan create an atmosphere where people could chemical composition of water mg/l Sodium+potassium (Na+ K+) 4.5 became the epicenter of all events. The feel that they are taken care of, that they Chlorides (Cl) 3.5 capital came alive with numerous slogans could warm up during that cold period and Sulphates 4.6 Hydrogen carbonates 95 and velvet revolutionary attributes. not feel themselves abandoned. Calcium 77.2 The main square of the country and its In this chaotic and controversial world, Magnesium 20.67 adjacent streets filled with the inspired the most important thing is to remain activists. a human, and being a human means to Korchma Taras Bulba, situated near the sympathize and be warmhearted. center of events, couldn’t but immerse into Be warmhearted! the wave of the nationwide cultural and Korchma Taras Bulba political demonstration. Our restaurant appeared to be a very convenient Lyudmyla Yusypyuk 12 | COOKERY
February 2 Groundhog Day EAT SALO AND February 5 International Scouts’ Day February 8 Day of Russian Science STAY HEALTHY! 14 FEBRUARY
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February 9 Aero ot Day International Dentist Day February 10 Diplomatic Worker’s Day in Russia A. S. Pushkin Remembrance Day February 13 World Radio Day February 14 Saint Valentine’s Day Programmer’s Day February 15 Candlemas, the Meeting of the Lord February 18 Interesting facts about salo: Day of Transport Police of the Russian Federation February 23 - Energy value of salo makes up 770 kcal per 100 g, that is equal to a kilogram of boiled Defender of the Fatherland Day potato or more than a half kilogram of chicken meat. - Italy is considered to be the birthplace of salo. It was the place where three thousand years February 24 Maslianytsia festival (beginning of the Maslianytsia (Butter) ago there was started an idea to use pork fat as a cheap caloric food for slaves working at week – a pre-Lent week in the Eastern Orthodox Church) quarries. - In the years of the Second World War, Soviet soldiers su ering from food shortage and February 28 means of its storage survived on alcohol, hard bread and salo. Day of the Patrol and Point Duty Service Workers of Ukraine - Sledge runners were lubricated with salo. It was also used for lubricating a ship’s bottom before launching it on water. For example, the frigate ‘Saint Nicholas’ used 130 pounds of the lique ed fat. COOKERY | 13
Salo (pork lard) is perhaps on top of the list of the national Ukrainian cuisine. Its popularity was always so great that it became one of the components of the Ukrainian culture. This is the product Ukrainians are associated with in the GOST 2903-78 world. A lot of Ukrainian songs and anecdotes featuring salo add folk peculiarity to its theme. However, it should be noted that it became the Ukrainian pride CONDENSED MILK because of its taste and healthy properties.
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Savoring the food products sold at supermarkets Salo is famous for its healing properties. product, especially in case of toothache. For This fact is proven by a number of scientific this it is necessary to put a small piece of salo today, we pine for “the USSR taste.” Despite studies. Thus, salo is rich in vitamin F that on an aching tooth for half an hour. Pork fat numerous drawbacks of the economy of that anchors vessels. It contains polyunsaturated mixed with salt is also helpful in cases of joint time, its food industry was at a height. It used arachidonic acid which doesn”t occur in injuries. This warming mixture is applied exclusively natural ingredients. Close your eyes vegetable oils, however is necessary for heart with hermetic seal in order to relieve pain and for a moment and try to remember the delicious muscle strengthening and improvement of speed up the recovery. brain activity. Immune reactions of the body Salo has a property to protect skin. To taste of Soviet condensed milk, produced under also depend on arachidonic acid. Salo can protect it from cold and wind, it is necessary GOST 2903-78. It was white with a hint of cream prevent cancer and eliminate toxins from the to grease the open parts of the body. Pork fat color, not too sweet and divinely delightful. It body. The Ukrainian national product is rich can also come in handy to sun-seekers. It helps was made of milk and sugar only, and it cost just in vitamins A, E, D, carotene and selenium to get perfect suntan and avoid sunburn. 37 kopecks. That was a price of a 400-gram can! microelement. And in winter our body Consumption of salo in reasonable especially needs these vitamins. portions is highly effective virus preventive It is not surprising that the product didn’t stay The best time to eat salo is morning, treatment, especially in winter. Qualities of too long on the store shelves. Moreover, to meet because besides vitamins it will give you a salo are doubled if eaten with garlic. Garlic the standards, it had to be packaged in tin cans huge energy boost. Salo stimulates a discharge in its turn also contains a range of healthful and to be produced only from milk fat (8.5% of bilis accumulated over the night in the substances. These are phytoncids that possess of fat). If the manufacturers couldn’t fulfill the body and facilitates its clearance. The irony is the qualities of killing bacteria or suppressing that salo normalizes the level of cholesterol, is its growth. Garlic is also called a natural requirements, they produced it under different well digested and doesn”t affect liver. A small antibiotic, it is effective both in prevention of specifications with a correspondent label on the piece of salo before a meal covers the walls ARVI and oncological diseases. The garlic is packaging. of a stomach with a thin film of fat, slowing rich in vitamins C and PP, also in quercetin, Few people know that the idea of the condensed up the absorption of alcohol and weakening bioflavonoid that thins the blood and inhibits milk was first suggested by the Frenchman intoxication. Salo goes will with alcohol since blood clot formation. Besides, just like salo, it spirits help to digest fat quickly and break it reduces the level of cholesterol in blood. Nicolas Appert. The Paris confectioner discovered down into components. You can taste the best national product that if you boil a bottle of juice, its contents Salo is not fattening if only you do not to in “Korchma “Taras Bulba”. We offer a wide won’t spoil for a long time. After a number of overeat it. Food prepared with this kind of fat range of salo: with garlic, pickled cucumbers, experiments he found out that milk is better is healthier than food cooked in refined oil. cabbage and slices of rye bread. In addition preserved in tin cans, and that they don’t crack The salted or pickled salo is the most valuable. you can order either vodka or liqueur. In Daily amount for an adult person is 9-12 g of the atmosphere of cozy Ukrainian house in boiling water. As a result of his studies, in salo, but not more if you want it to provide prevailing in “Korchma”, we offer you to 1858, the USA built the first plant specializing benefit. Salo is widely used as a medicinal savor the best Ukrainian salo! in condensed milk production. In the Russian Empire the production was set up a little bit later – in 1881, when a small factory opened outside SMOKED LARD Orenburg. 100 g – 190 RUR In the Soviet Union, the launch of the production of condensed milk as well as most semi-finished products is attributed to Anastas Mikoyan, People’s Commissar for Food. In the 1930s he personally visited food industry enterprises of the capitalist countries and introduced in the USSR manufacturing of the cooked sausage, sausages, canned stewed meat, ice cream, and condensed milk. Of course it was produced not because of a surplus of milk, but in view of a forthcoming war. This product, along with flour and meat, made up the basis of the USSR State Reserve. 14 | CULTURE
HE WAS CALLED A GENIUS DURING HIS LIFETIME, HE WAS NAMED “THE FIRST RUSSIAN POET,” AND HE HAD A CULT FOLLOWING. NO WONDER MOST OF US REMEMBER HIS VERSES FROM OUR SCHOOL YEARS. BEYOND HIS ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY, THERE ARE OTHER, LESS KNOWN BUT NO LESS INTERESTING, FACTS ABOUT THE WRITER. HE WAS AN INCURABLE GAMBLER, A REBEL, AND HE DUELED NEARLY ONE HUNDRED TIMES! THE LAST DUEL WAS FATAL. THIS ISSUE IS DEDICATED TO ALEXANDER PUSHKIN, WHOSE ANNIVERSARY IS TRADITIONALLY COMMEMORATED IN RUSSIA ON FEBRUARY 10. ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: RUSSIAN LITERARY GENIUS
of the famous poet Gavryil Derzhavin, he fever in my usual way. General Rayevskyi, read out his verse “The old Derzhavin saw— who was on his way to the Caucasus with his and blessed us as he descended to the grave.” son and two daughters, found me delirious, The first verses of the young man appeared without a doctor, with a jug of iced lemonade. in periodicals. Little by little, he began to His son ... offered to take me on a journey to gain literary fame. the Caucasus Springs... I was ill when I got After graduation from the lyceum, into a barrow but a week later I was as good Pushkin settled in St. Petersburg where he as new,” he wrote in a letter to his brother. worked in the College of Foreign Affairs. He Later the poet settled in Kishinev mingled with the elite of that time and led where he began to write a novel in verse a lifestyle of “easy morals.” He continued Eugene Onegin. He met members of a secret writing his poem Ruslan and Lyudmila, organization, the future Decembrists. He which he had started as a student, and also joined the Masonic Lodge Ovid. in his free time he promoted the ideas of In 1831, Alexander Pushkin proposed civil liberties and political radicalism. The to Natalia Goncharova again. The woman cream of the society was imbued with such accepted and soon they were married in an sentiments. His epigrams started to travel old church in Moscow. During the exchange throughout the empire. He called the tsar of rings, Pushkin’s wedding ring fell on the “a despot” and his entourage “slaves.” floor. Then his candle extinguished. He Moreover, the poet’s fame was increasing turned pale and said: “Thos are bad omens!” every day and he became a pain in the tsar’s The bad omens were felt a few years later. neck. His house was searched and after long In 1834, Baron D’Anthès came to Russia; deliberation, the rebel poet was sent to exile. he fell in love with the poet’s wife and made Then Alexander I said, “Pushkin should be her indecent proposals. Of course, after this exiled to Siberia: he has flooded Russia with many rumors and false stories spread and his outrageous verses; all the young people the genius lost his temper. About two years know them by heart.” His influential friends later, enraged Alexander wrote an insulting rescued him from imprisonment. They letter to D’Anthès, hoping that he would requested he be transferred to the South... challenge him to a duel. And so he did. The It’s worth mentioning that the authorities men dueled on the bank of the Black River, contemplated sending him to the Solovki where the poet was fatally wounded in the Monastery, where in prayers and repentance stomach. He died in agony two days later – Pushkin would come to his senses. But later on February 10 (on January 29 according to the officials changed their minds, since they the old style), 1837. Somewhere between ten were afraid that Pushkin could wreak havoc and fifty thousand people came to pay their A portrait of Pushkin (P. F. Sokolov) among the monks. last tribute to him. One newspaper wrote, On the way to his new place of service, “The sun of our poetry has set! Pushkin has Pushkin was born in 1799 in Moscow. According to Alexander Pushkin swam in the river and died, died in the prime of life, in the midst of historical documents, it was a very fine day, a day when caught pneumonia. “Having arrived to his great pursuits!” Emperor Paul’s granddaughter was born. The great news Yekaterinoslav, I got bored and road on a was announced by the ringing of church bells all around boat along the Dnieper, swam and caught a TEXT: Stepan HRYTSIUK the country and celebrated with festive liturgies. So, by a twist of fate, the genius’s birthday was marked with a nationwide celebration. The young Alexander grew up in a literary community. His father was keen on poetry and so their house was frequented by famous writers: Zhukovskyi, Karamzin, and others. Alexander had an excellent memory and his childhood memories date back to the age of four. Several times he told a story that once, during a walk, he noticed the ground and the pillars of a building shake… It was 1803, when the last earthquake was recorded in Moscow. Approximately at that time, Alexander Pushkin met the emperor for the first time – the little Sasha was almost knocked over by the horse of Alexander I, who went out for a ride. Fortunately, the emperor halted his horse and the child wasn’t harmed. The only one who got frightened was the nanny. After some home schooling, the boy was sent to a prestigious educational institution that had just opened – the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. He was referred by a good friend of his uncle’s. It was not by chance that his family decided he must receive a decent education – when still a little boy, Alexander had memorized practically all the verses from the home library. Incidentally, all of them were in French. At school, Alexander Pushkin also developed his passion. There, he took interest not only in the poetry of other authors, but also started to write his own poems. “I started to write when I was 13, and at the same time my writing was printed,” he recollected later. In 1815, in the presence Pushkin’s Duel with D’Anthès (painting by A. A. Naumov, 1884) NEWS FROM “KORCHMA” | 15
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