I never dreamed to be a filmmaker, but I was an avid reader In his short story Autobiography, Oleg says that he had a normal childhood: he grew up in a village, in a half-cultured family: his mother was a…
Do not think that you’re Ukrainian, be Ukrainian Podervianskyi was raised in a bilingual environment, his father was half Russian, and his mother fluently spoke both Russian and Ukrainian. But even when the author moved from the Ukrainian school to…
About childhood and first visits to Ukraine My Ukraine was from the 50ies, the one that my grandmother and my parents brought with them to the diaspora. In my imagination it was Ukraine, they told me about – small houses,…
About childhood, principles and beliefs In my childhood, I was terribly restless. I was always fussing around; the knees were constantly green. I was often friends with boys; almost all the holidays spent in my grandmother’s. Mom tells me that…
About parents, childhood, Siberia and the first creative steps My parents were not musicians. They graduated from the University of Vienna: my father’s qualification was history, my mother’s – chemistry. Then they worked as teachers in Lviv. My dad was…
About life and her own principles My husband and I traveled all over Ukraine on his little “ZAZ Zaporozhets”. Believe me, this car can go where Mercedes gets stuck. Sometimes the writer believes that Ukraine should know him. And I…
About childhood, life and own principles In the fifth grade, I realized that I want to be a good actress to give my heart to people, it was at that level. And then you understand that without wit and without…
About childhood, the way to the church and leisure My childhood passed in the village of Stara Zhadova of Storozhynets area, where I graduated from high school and went to a local church. Without any hesitations, I entered the Kyiv…
About childhood, learning, and life My father was a jack-of-all-trades and the best weaver in our area. He could literally weave Greek amphoras from a vine, the ones in which we could hide. What a pair of shoes he was…
About childhood, parents and youth The family has always lived in debt: for vacation, for the apartment. It seems that only when I was in the eighth grade, we moved to another apartment, and my parents also borrowed to buy…