For Alexandra

“Educated Ukrainians usually work for anything in the world except Ukraine and its people.... They must take an oath to themselves not to desert the Ukrainian cause. They must realize that every educated man who leaves Ukraine, every cent which is not spent for Ukrainian pur­poses, every word that is not spoken in Ukrainian, is a waste of the capi­tal of the Ukrainian people, and that with things as they are, anything lost is irreplaceable.’’

Mykhailo Drahomanov, “Introduction” IoHromada

Ivan L. Rudnytsky