Kateryna Skarzhynska
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Kateryna Mykolayivna Skarzhynska née von Reiser was a Ukrainian noblewoman, philanthropist, and collector of folklore. She established the first private museum in Ukraine to house her collection of artifacts and was particularly known for her collection of pysanky, Easter eggs decorated with Ukrainian folk art.
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Location of the Kruglik estate in 1878
Home of Nikolai Georgievich Skarzhynsky on the Kruglik estate
Home of Kateryna Skarzhynska on the Kruglik estate
Kulzhynskiy, with his students: Natalia, Igor, and Olga Skarzhynsky, 1895-1896
Sample of pysanky from the collection of Skarzhynska, 1899
Plaque on 10 Gogol Street, Lubny
Poltava Museum of Local History, which houses Skarzhynska's papers and some of her collection of artifactsAwards 1
Business Professionals born in the 1850s 6
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Kateryna Mykolayivna Skarzhynska née von Reiser was a Ukrainian noblewoman, philanthropist, and collector of folklore. She established the first private museum in Ukraine to house her collection of artifacts and was particularly known for her collection of pysanky, Easter eggs decorated with Ukrainian folk art. Born in Lubny to the von Reiser family, which had a long history of military service to the Russian Tsars, she was educated at home, studying in her parents' library and with select tutors. After her father died in 1859, together with her mother, brother, and maternal grandmother she moved to the Lodygyn/Lodigine family estates in the Tver province of the Russian Empire, near Moscow. There at the age of 14, von Reiser established a school for the former serfs of the estate and a public hospital.
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