Ivan Franko's Happy and Tragic Easter Days. Deaths of the closest people and the love of a lifetime
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Easter in Ivan Franko's life was very different. Despite the meaning of the Holy Resurrection, which symbolizes the triumph of life over death, the joy of the awakening of new life, it was on these days that Ivan Franko's dearest people left him, which became a real tragedy for him. Irreparable grief. Unhealed pain...
At the same time, the greatest love of his life befell him on Easter. And marriage to another woman.
Death on Easter and love. Prison and an unforgettable Easter trip to Rome. And the last Easter of the seriously ill Ivan Franko alone in an empty house...
This is the subject of a conversation with Natalia Tykholoz, a well-known French scholar, director of the Institute of French Studies at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and editor-in-chief of the scientific and educational online project FRANKO: LIVE.
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