In gift to Larnaca, sculpture unveiled of 18th-century Kyiv chronicler of island

In a historic moment for Cyprus, Larnaca has unveiled the island’s first-ever sculpture of Vasyl Hryhorovych-Barsky, an 18th-century traveller from Kyiv who travelled all over Cyprus on foot, lived here, and described the island so precisely that his notes remain one of the most valuable primary sources on early modern Cyprus. The sculpture is a gift to the city, created with the support of its patrons – the cultural centre Obiimy Cyprus and the family initiative Sushko Philanthropy.

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