Zafurichina. Kyrylo Bulkin overheard what Olga Rapai-Markish's felines are talking about...

Actor, writer, translator, bard, and blogger Kyrylo Bulkin. In Kyiv, he is well known as a radio journalist (in particular, for the Kyiv office of Radio Liberty), a theater actor, and a television presenter.

It is surprising how good his stage speech is (a rarity nowadays, even for artists with specialized education).  Mr. Kyrylo is actually a physicist, and he is a physicist in the most difficult specialization of this science - theoretical physics, which he mastered up to the postgraduate course at the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

And, thanks to him, another discovery awaited me at the festival performance: the sculptor Olha Rapai-Markish (1929-2012), who was born in Kharkiv. This creative and fragile woman had an abusive childhood and youth: repression, the arrest of her stepfather, the shooting of her father, and exile to Siberia.

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