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The Life And Death Of Alla Horska
 

Young Ukrainian Artist of the 1950's-1960's
Repressed and Murdered By The Soviets



Alla Horska's Murder And The Stained Glass
Window, "Prophet In Chains" At Kiev
University In Kyiv, Ukraine
November 28, 1970

"Alla Horska, a young Ukrainian woman artist and a member of the Kiev Art Institute, was murdered on November 28, 1970, near Kiev under mysterious circumstances. In her home she often was host to many known Ukrainian intellectual dissidents.

"Together with two other Ukrainian artists, Panas Zalyvakha and Ludmyla Semdykina, she designed a stained glass window entitled, "Prophet" (showing Taras Shevchenko in chains, with powerful quotations against the Russian Czars), for the main hall of Kiev University.

The window was destroyed by Russian chauvinists, angered because it symbolized freedom, for which all Ukrainians are striving. Miss Horska, according to The UkrainianHerald (No. 5, June, 1971, was slain on the orders of the KGB."


  WILL THERE BE A TRIAL?
 
 


Will there bea trial? A punishment
Of czars, of little czars on earth?
Will there be truth among men..?
There ought to be, for the sun will stop
And burn the desecrated earth.

                                   T. Shevchenko

 

 

"PROPHET IN CHAINS"

"A part of the stained-glass window mosaic in the main hall of Kyiv University by Ukrainian artists Opanas Zalyvakha, Alla Horska and Ludmyla Semykina. One of the artists... Alla Horska, was murdered by the KGB, two others were arrested, and the mosaic was destroyed by the Soviet Government."

 

Photograph Shows The Cover Of The Phamplet: "Ukrainian Intellectuals In Shackles..."Violations Of Human Rights In Ukraine", Ukrainian Congress Committee Of America, New York, New York, 1972. The material above was taken from this pamphlet.

 

ArtUkraine Editor's Note: The information above that the destroyed stained glass window, designed and being built by Alla Horska and other artists, showed Taras Shevchenko in chains is not correct. This was probably the best information available in 1972 when the phamplet was published.

The stained glass window shown on the cover of the phamplet is also not the correct image of the stained glass window under construction that was destroyed in Kyiv at Kyiv University.

The next article about Alla Horska (below) correctly describes the main stained glass window that was being constructed. Also see the original photograph shown below taken in Alla Horska's artist studio on the day of her funeral which shows an original drawing of the window complex.

 
 

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