Eugenia provides a compelling look at how Petrykivka art transforms spontaneous folk intuition into a resilient symbol of Ukrainian national identity. It’s a poignant testament to the fact that culture often survives where empires fail.
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From Village Walls to UNESCO: The Journey of Petrykivka Art
Added:Hello, hello guys. Thank you for taking your time to check this stream and hello to everyone who is not watching football right now aka soccer. So today we are checking the another village in Nepropet region or Nepro region but not from the memory side. uh this village has its own gem and it's widely known and widely unknown like uh today's I eat girls. So guys tell me please if you see me and hear me clearly do you hear my voice? Do you see screen? Is everything working as planned? Because I'm still struggling with the technical technical support of the stream. Hello Trevor.
Uh I am not able to print the answer but I will just answer you. So I have a feeling that only Trevor is watching the stream. However, does not matter if at least one person is watching then it's good. Still this stream will be available even in the recording. So you can just Oh my god, what is happening background? You can just jump and rewatch it. So I will share my screen and show this village to you. However, how do you think what gem this village has? This village is doing Petraka.
Petraka ropes in Ukrainian is if we are talking with in Ukrainian language. How do you do you how do you think what Petraka Rospus means? Actually, if you see the pool somewhere here or here, I don't know uh regarding the orientation because my camera mirrors me. So, if you see the pool Oh, hi guys. I see there is there there are a lot of people already not only Trevor but welcome welcome welcome to everyone who is not watching shocker who will watch shocker in the repeat stream maybe in the recording. So and thank you for taking the time to be a guest on this stream coming through very clearly. Yay.
you have at least seven people watching.
Yeah, guys, this live stream, it's like a trial content. I'm trying new version of the content and I'm still doing pre-recorded videos. I'm dropping them on Sundays and Mondays. It depends when I finish because I have a full-time job.
I'm working in corporate Ukraine. So I'm struggling with the timing but at least one time a week I'm dropping like pre-recorded video and I'm organizing such streams to uh give you uh like understanding what is going on right now right here or some cultural improvisation like we learned today. So if you see this pool, how do you think what is Petraka mean? Is it type of Ukrainian bread or maybe it's a style of Ukrainian painting or maybe it's dance or maybe it's Ukrainian soup like borch something like that. Please put the digit into the chat so I uh so I could clarify that you're alive guys.
painting. So, two two or three.
Yes, the answer is in the title of this video. You are correct. Yes, it's Ukrainian style of the painting. And I know you guys already familiar with the Galitzian type of the embroidery because I'm currently I'm uh all the time showing it on the bazar or market the vashankas. However, I will share my screen right freaking now and in case you see the map you see where village of Petraka is located. If we zoom out, if we zoom out, we will see that it's on the left bank of the Nippro River near the Kamyans. Here is a Kamyanska and Petraka. When I was a young kid in at 90s in my school year, we went to the excursion for this Petraka.
Here you see some photos of it. So this village has its own museum of the Petraka ropas Petraka painting and all the Petetroka painting was born exactly here in this place in Nepro region. So Nepro region is not only industrial and mythological production and plants. We also have them art and our art is really unique and I will show you why. So, as you can see, it's also near Nero, but it's more closer to Kamyanska. So, let's get back to the slides. I have a lot of slides for you today. So, here we are, guys. So, what do you think of when you see such type of the art?
Such type of the art or these ones.
So such type of the art can be more familiar with you because maybe you have already seen it somewhere but you do not know exactly where it came from. So guys this urban set settlement Petra Kifka that you have seen on the map it was uh founded by the one Kazak uh this was the supreme leader of Zaporish sieich at that time and it was at 1772 Petro Kalnashevski Petro Kalnvski was uh the last supreme leader of the sapkasich after unfortunately Katherine the second disorder Zaporishka sie and this woman was not even Russian she was she had a German roots but she decided that Kak are no longer um good for her so you understand me so because they uh she saw clearly the rebellion soul of this cozak yes guys so basically basically let me pause it. Uh, and check on your comment.
Borch, what is the number? No, it's not a borch. This is painting.
Why can the maps be in English? Joy.
Yeah, because this is Ukrainian maps. I will translate for you. No worries.
Okay, page. Yes, page is uh language is default. If I will put the set settings in my Google account to English, it will be English. However, today I'm feeling very patriotic. Next time I will do it English. Okay. So guys, let me share the screen once again and I will show you who was Petro Kalnashevki.
Here is the guy.
So this guy decided to move his people into the Chaplain River and Chaplain River was running right near the land that now we call Petrika. So he moved there and he decided to build new church there because village population was growing so fast. So the um old elder church could not contain all the people there. So they built the church and building of the church as always gave the starting point of the urban settlement. So in 1772 Petraka settlement was created. However, local lore guys is saying that uh before even Petroleski made it deal made it real uh one Kak that called Patrick his name was not Patrick but Patrick. Patrick. Yes, that is why art was called Patrickka and village was called Patrickka. This Patrick did them winter stain at that territory. So and that is why they called the village this way. Okay guys, so this is Petro Kalnvki as you see this is what does it mean when I'm saying the supreme leader of Kazak. Yeah. And people started to live there and started to paint there. This settlement very important uh part of the settlement is that um they have not experiencing self-dome like slavery. The people who live there were absolutely free and you can feel uh how they embracing uh this freedom in the paintings. So this uh this painting had no any patterns or uh sketches or drawings. They just paint it as it is as the minds in their head will visit them and they are painting. So and um what um uh sorry I will check your comments and they don't speak present com hi Jane glad are glad you are well I'm fine but I'm trying to do my best with this stream and trying to tell you something interesting. Yeah I hope this painting is interesting for you. So uh as far as I already said the women started to paint on the walls of the katas of their homes. Why on the walls?
Because at that time there was no any um paper where they can draw on because it was a village. People were um not very rich there. They were poor and all their incomings came from the ground. They were planting like veggies, doing hunting and that's all. And of course uh like paints like aquarial paints that uh that they can use to paint this art. It's was not available in the village. Okay, let me show you how they painted on the hatas.
This is of course reproduction in the museum but this is how painting look like on the walls of hata. So walls of hata Ukrainian hata w was um the subject of the art itself guys and they also did this paintings in the walls inside. And of course they dedicated a lot of time to the stove because stove was the uh place where the life in Hata appeared because it was the source of food and the source of fire and heat.
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Yes. Enjoy horse and this uh I don't know who it will be in English.
Shashka. We call it shashka, the swart. But it's not the sword in the classical sense because it was curvy. It was like and thin. Swart was like h but shashka was like curvy and thin.
Okay.
So Joya, you need also a hat then.
Yeah.
Yes, Ukrainian egg. Ukrainian egg also had an embroiderdenary. But uh all that you have seen yet at least from my side was representing them more like western part of the country embroiderary. Every local like um oblast or district has its own like pattern of painting and Nepro region even a small part of the Pava region they are they did this Petroka and after this Petroka was spreading spreading all over the country. Yeah.
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Okay, so guys, let's get back to the subject of the talk. So, and when women were painting on the walls of their hatas, these paintings were not like for entirety because you know a winter was uh going on in the village like it was raining and all these paintings were fading and every spring like think of it like a great spring cleaning. women just erased this paintings and drawings from the heart.
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So, uh, after each spring, every woman needs to put the painting back. And if your hata is like clean without any decoration, it was not nice because it was a tradition for this village. After also men were learning how to do so and they were accompanied women. So you see that it's good that Petraka um Petroka uh art and painting is not solely women's like um women's craft. men also were doing it and it's uh shows that Ukrainian society at that time were equal.
So all people were equal guys. Okay. So how people discovered it? Of course this guy the metroya Bornitzki here is it he was a Ukrainian and he was like um history guy. He was studied history at that time and of course he was living in Russia because if you wanted to do a career at the time you need to go to the St. Petersburg or Moscow like not because Ukraine was not great but because Moscow appropriate everything that was in Ukraine. So yeah, and he spotted um this art some uh like traders who were going to like exchange their goods and do the some markets thing on this land uh were coming back to the St. Petersburg and they told this guy. So he spotted it and sent first um his assistants to the Petetroka and after he went himself to Petraka and decided to showcase this art on the St. Petersburg fair. So in St. Petersburg these works were represented in 1830. So 18 1813. So it w was uh beginning of the 20th century. So and after everyone were amazed of of this art because Ukrainians guys they we are cool and we are very very creative. You see me I'm very creative.
a equal who made the summit joy I don't know what does it mean I'm sorry please give me synonym synonyms synonyms here okay so after uh it was industrial revolution and cheaper uh cheaper paper started to spread even in the villages and women started to paint their art not only on the walls and on the stoves of hata but also on the piece of the paper and it called malovk malovka. Yeah. So after the Soviet collectivization people were too busy by the way uh so for they were trying to survive and uh they did not worry about some craft or culture. So till the 1336 till the 1936 a local um teacher decided to renew this art. So this local teacher name was Tatana.
This woman remained in the history like um person who saved the Petroka art. I will show you to you. Okay. So where where is Tana?
No, this is Marta.
And this is Marta. It's all Marta. It's already second generation of crafters.
Okay, let me find the correct.
Okay.
So you you see this is clear representation of Ukrainian village at the time. This is Hik on the fence.
Yeah. This is Crashank and this is local museum.
Here is it Tatiana.
This woman she was also doing the Petra's art.
and uh together with her colleague. Uh what makes uh Petraka art very unique because the paint goes without any prayer dominant draling outlets. So no pencil, no rules, just confidence. And this is shows guys that the real owner of this art uh was in Ukraine despite that Soviet Union wanted to appropriate this art. They even when the Soviets discovered it once again, they created like mass production and they uh were trying to print this art and sell it abroad, export it for money and just put attack on it that is Soviet Union property and it's like uh was done by the Soviet Russian people.
It's a woman's job making sandwiches.
Sandwiches? I thought you spoke English.
Joya, what state are you living in?
Because um some maybe dialects or some maybe accents can be not very attainable for me to understand but I'm learning. I would like to know it. I wish I could print like Soviet Union did a commercial like and started to earn money. They print print this. Um yeah. And do you see that paintings were done on the uh like white paper at that time or on the gray paper.
However, Soviets decided to replace white paper with the black black paper or black sur uh surface to make the uh art more like noticeable and make standard uh stand out. So uh now you see a lot of maybe play no plates or spoons that are actually black and they have this painting. Not because it was from the beginning like that. No, Soviets did it. Yeah. Unfortunately, and um people were drawing with a fingerprints. For example, if they are painting Kalina Kalina, this is Yeah. Yeah. I will show you guys I will show you guys the here here we are. So the main elements the main elements that they used in the Petroka painting was kalina of course vibrum sorry vibrum so it's symbol of Ukraine family roots. So this uh symbol of Ukraine was done with the fingerprints and you will be amazed when I tell you what brushes did they used.
How do you think?
Pull here. I will represent you the pool. Now by the way guys, do you hear the music? I put some on the background to put some vitality in our process because I could be very boring, you know. So here we are widgets. Yes, exactly. Height.
Yeah. How do you think guys? What funny material did artist use to make brushes?
cat fur, dog's hair, horse tail, or chicken feathers. How do you think? Please put the digits in the chat so I knew that you're alive. Okay.
Uh music is uh provided by this streaming service, so it's for free.
Chicken feather, horse tail. Yeah, you will be very surprised. I was surprised, guys. Believe me, more and more answers. Come on, guys.
David chicken feather, my camera is here. Your chat is here.
So, just trying to make an eye contact with you. It was cat fur guys. Cat fur.
And this um brushes was called cat brushes. Uh that means kotachka. In Ukrainian they are calling it kachachka.
So I will share my screen and show you how people nowadays are making these brushes by by using the cat.
No cat was harmed guys. Do not worry. Do not worry. I will disable. And here we are. And do you see cat?
Red cat. So this lady.
Ah, here we are. So she already So this is a Caesar. This is orange cat.
You see he pleased.
No cat was harmed. Do not worry. Do not worry.
You see it's so funny.
So you see they have some fur from the cat from his belly.
Am I showing the screen guys? If you see how they just trimming the cat, please do some reaction in the chat. So, so she's comforting him.
No, she said after the triming cat, please give him a hug or pet him. Yeah, I see. Yeah. Okay. So, this is a cat fur and they will use them PV pe clay clay.
Uh-huh.
just the body of the stick.
So you see Mhm.
So you have got the pattern how it does.
Okay.
So you see once they uh once I've discovered why they are like um why they are using cat's fur is because cats are very fluffy and um this brush needs to be fluffy fluffy just to uh to put appropriate like painting on the wall or on the subject or on the paper doesn't matter.
So are you ready to another pool? Okay, let me So how do you think which plant is a big symbol in Petraka art? Vibranum, pine trees, grapes or apples?
Please put digits in the chat. So I I so I can I couldn't understand that I have teach you something for this session because I will need to repeat apples. Yeah.
Vibrum. Am I pronouncing vibrum correctly or no?
Uhhuh.
Yes guys, this is correct. Vibrum.
Vibrronome translate as kalina. Cherva.
Do you remember this song? This famous song in the beginning of the war.
I'm sorry for my singing but the kalina is the symbol of Ukraine like the soul of Ukraine. So yes it's kalina after they are using also the image of the rooster and rooster called in Ukrainian peeing peeing and symbolize fire awakening and protection from evil. So awakening maybe because the rooster sings very very early at 5:00 in the morning or something like that.
Yeah, it's your vegetable vibrome kalina. This is not a vegetable.
I think it's berry. Okay. So after uh they also using peacock like um image on the pedroka art that symbolize beauty, pride and eternity. Peacock. This is pavage. Pavage. I will show you some art just in order to check. You see this is vibrum kalina and this is peacock.
So you you you could check also they are using the pictures or firebird it's like mystical bird it's not existing in the real life and it's translates as jar jar like firebird uh that symbolize happiness and mystery of course. Okay, let's go to another banner.
You see uh they are doing a lot of flowers here and uh flowers can be roses, poppies, sunflowers, tulips and daisies. It's a joy and nature cycle. If they are painting trees or um trees of life like it's symbolize continuing of life, connection of grand generations you know Ukraine has very strong connection with the family. We have a u strong family roots. So children can live with the parents unlimited. So, and parents should help children and children should help parents help parents. So, it's like side to side connection.
I'm late. Sorry. No worries. Miriam, we are welcoming you.
The future voice contestant people.
No, that's beautiful. Does anyone still paint like of course they are painting every day. The Petraka art is painting today. They have the factory there and museum and artists are living in the Petraka and they are painting right now and you can buy souvenirs there. Hey girl Patrick. Hello.
By the way, Patrick, we discussing the Petraka art and Petraka art and Petroka village was named by the Kaks Kak um Patrick Patrick. Yeah, according to the local lore. So, yeah, welcome. Okay, let me disable this pool because it's on my poor head.
Yeah, sorry guys. Uh, I'm still struggling with the streams.
Widgets hide. Yes. Yes. Here we are.
Swedish kits and Ukrainian Patrick Gifka are highly similar. Yeah. Obi. Yeah.
So, let me show you men who are writing. By the way, guys, who is this guy? Who will tell me in the chat who is this who this guy is?
Come on guys and after I will show you the article about this guy. It was uh this uh photo was taken on the day of Europe.
Do not be shy. You can answer.
Hello, Eugenia.
Hey. Hey. Happy to see you. I'm so grateful that uh a lot of people for me for me 10 people on the stream. It's already a lot. And I'm sorry guys, how we are saying in Ukrainian this mean that the water or tea in my case uh was put not in the correct throat or something like that.
Okay. So uh for me it's an honor to speak to you about uh the culture and history of my country and um find that it's valuable talks for you because you um sacrificed your time to be present here in real time so and really watching it and uh for me it's like responsibility and I'm trying to prepare valuable m materials just to be useful for you. So guys, I deeply appreciate it. Coffee guy, polit politician, polit very very warm, warm, warm. Guys, this is a this is mayor of Paris. Here is the official article.
Do I have a translation?
Let's me may of painted petria.
Okay.
Yes.
Yes.
Paris mayor Emmanuel.
Um I'm afraid I will pronounce it very very incorrectly.
It will be more it will will be even swearing but it's Gregory Gregory Emanuel Gregory Emanuel Gregory I deeply apologize in front of all French people sorry tried his hand at Petraka painting for the first time during Europe day celebration at the play place de la Republic Square guys I'm sorry for my I'm sorry for my reading It's like four grade level. Sorry, we feel bad for you.
Sympathy viewer. Yes. Even if you are coming here to just feel bad for me and spot my fiasco or embarrassment, it's also good because it uh teaches me to be brave and to be courageous and uh do not cry after this every stream and all southern people are watching me and let's bless her heart. Oh my god.
Sorry. Okay, I'm like a person from United Kingdom. I'm always say sorry many many times. So, okay, let's come back to our Patrick Diva.
Okay, so we have already concluded this is the mayor of Paris. Bless your heart, Andy.
Yeah.
Uh by the way I have seen the documentary about ar Arkansas ar Arkansas life and this phrase was from the this documentary that if you want to just feel sorry about something or about someone like bless his heart like he's struggling or she's struggling. Okay.
Yeah guys you see I'm trying to um be close to American culture. Yeah. uh because recently I've participated to the educational bridge uh where American representatives um from the conference um were participated with Ukrainian side and uh it was in poly techchnic university I was present as a listener uh it it it was a honor for me and did some footage I will also do separate video about it and um I was very inspired and um Main thought of this conference is that support of Ukraine goes beyond the politics.
Guys, I'm sure that the people who present here and me or and we all together will not agree about politics but we can agree in one common thing that bombing civil buildings, hospitals and kindergartens that Russia is doing now is evil. So any democrats, centrists or republicans or conservative people from Europe or UK, Australia, all the democratic sides of the world can agree with me on that evil should be defeated and support of Ukraine is not about even financial or military aid. It's about peopleto-people connection like community to community connection. So that is why I'm trying to also check the culture of the communities who support Ukraine and be in one note like on on the on the one stream when I talking to them. Yes. Because in order to build a bridge I need to understand you and you also searching for ways to understand us. And this is very valuable by the way. What are we doing now? It's a cultural exchange and it's building the bridge for the further collaboration. Guys, if you agree with me, put thumbs up or heart to this chat.
That's cool. Yeah, I'm lucky to have a course and really cool.
When I was a kid, I also was trying art.
Uh we had the house of the culture in our small city uh in Kamyinskia and when our parents needs to be uh needed to be at work and had no time to watch after us after school all kids were going to the house of the culture and there till the 7 or 6 p.m. in the evening we were doing dancing painting and other stuff.
So and it was very cheap by the way it was affordable. Yeah. So, and I also did the vi vibrum like paintings with my finger.
Of course, we did not trim the cats, but yeah, sorry. So, let's show you another stuff. So, as you see, Petra Petraka art also was painted on the um like dishes that made from clay.
Yeah.
Or firebird or peacock. How do you think? Is it firebird or is it peacock?
I don't know.
The sunflowers. Yes. The hata Ukrainian hata vibrum rush also with Petraka embroiderary.
Yeah.
Where is fireb bird? I want to find it badly.
Look like a peacock. Yum.
So you see this lady with the child and cradle.
Yeah. And vibr like a symbol of life.
And you see the actor.
So men the same with the women did this art.
And it's good that word about art was spreaded um abroad also with the help of Soviet Union because did you know that President Nixon received the dishes with Petraka art? I guess Hushov was visiting him. Makita Kushchov. Do you know Makita Kushov? So this guy just went to America and did a present for him.
And it was so spread that UNESCO put Petraka art in the heritage that needs to be like protected and pool. The time for the pool guys start and show.
Great. So, how do you think what year they put um Petroipka art as heritage?
Write this year in the comment section.
No, no, the comment chat section.
1991 2000 millennium 2013 2020.
Okay. Are you waiting?
Yeah. Guys, by the way, do you like such type of the pool when in the middle of the storytelling I'm asking questions?
If you don't like, please tell me. Next time I will not do so. Uh yeah, when Russian fell, unfortunately Russian has not yet fell. It was Soviet Union.
But I believe that we will witness this moment. Good evening, Peter.
join us guys. It was 2013.
2013 Petra Kfka became a UNESCO heritage. Unfortunately, when uh I know that you people dropped 1991, then Ukraine became independent, but we still were considered as a colony of Russia.
Yeah, guys. And we needed time to decide for ourselves and to get a name for ourselves if if you know what I mean.
Mhm.
Unfortunately.
Yes.
Okay. Hide pool.
Oh, another pool.
I have already told you about this.
What the stop pull start to show pull and show pull. Okay, my favorite reminds me about my childhood. What do artists after pay um what do artists often paint barriers in Petrifka? with a spoon, with the fingerprints, with a stamp, with a stick.
Come on, guys.
Yes.
Yes. Because I've told you the story from my childhood and after all kids in the classroom on the class saying can I wash my fingers on the toilet sink? You know it took Ukraine longer to escape the Soviet grip. Of course. Of course.
And what I can tell you and even more uh there are some people who are nostalgic about Soviet there are some people like yeah unfortunately yeah correct 2013.
Yeah. So guys, I did not see I I have not seen the answer. If you like pulls anyways quizzes, should I do it or should I not? Oh, we were supposed Yes, you were supposed to listen because why would you come here? Just ah, you are waiting for my embarrassment. Yeah, but I already done it. I have already stumbled on English words. I've already uh was not properly managed the this stream. It was an advertisement that YouTube launched by by its own means and I decid I needed to just disabled it. So yes, embarrassing have already been here with us in the room.
Quiz me all day long.
Quiz sounds unappropriate, guys.
Yeah. Okay.
Another slide.
Sympathy viewing. Yes, sympathy viewing.
Yes. So, let's all together bless my heart and continue to check it. So, you see uh I will pull the banners.
What else uh people painted on um this um Petroka art? It was orc in Ukrainian it's dup dup. So it represent masculinity, trade and resilience and mal mal holy hooks.
Mal it's also like such Ukrainian tree sets feminine charm and tenderness.
You should also teach us some Ukrainian too.
Let's do it. Now I have already told you about fingerprints or on vibrum.
Vibranum it's kalina.
Kalina kalina red vibrum.
So yeah a stick.
No no no not a stick. Fingerprint. It's about the pool. Okay.
I want to find the famous auror of the Petetrofka art.
You see the these are the artists and these are the paint by but the most famous people were Tatiana Nadia Parasa Pavleno Federeno and other people just Yeah. So, but today in modern evolution anyone can do this as Rakifa art because there are a lot of um classes or a lot of painting schools are teaching it. So, in case you have such classes in your city, you can do it because it paints intuitively.
I have holy Oh, it's cool. It's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah. So, who are going to the Petraka classes, you are doing great. Your English is actually some of the very best especially for someone who has taught herself much of the English yourself. Actually I have been taught um English in school uh from the first grade to 11th grade and after all like academic teaching was over for me uh I've tried a little bit in university and after I was trying on the speaking clubs I'm go I was going to the speaking clubs I visited Lutheran church English speakaking clubs and after they told me about Jesus and gave me my first Bible, if you know what I mean. Yeah. And um uh all I did was speaking. However, my writing is extremely bad because I'm doing a lot of mistakes and in my spelling, in my speaking, in my speeches, you can hear a lot of grammar mistakes. So, and I deeply apologize for that. Uh apologizing for that. I feel sometimes embarrassed but English is a tool for communication and building the bridge between us. So when full-scale invasion started uh in the telegram chats it was a volunteer group uh it were a lot of groups in the telegram chats and uh one guy said the administrator of the group uh said if you know English at least on intermediate level it's your tool it's your gun shotgun right now it's the way you can battle the propaganda and it's a way in of participation informational warfare and when everyone were like active we were trying to do the videos about traveling it it was uh short stories in Instagram however quickly we understood that Instagram isn't is not about political content and and uh does not like bad news all Instagram likes is polished life and you know all these filters and all this luxury style or comedy. By the way, um yeah, I'm watching comedy in Instagram.
So, and after I decided I need to expand and do videos more longer and understood that only in YouTube people have longer attention span because Tik Tok killed it, killed it totally. So, yeah. And guys, my videos are watched by people more um who are 40 plus age 18 like zoomers are not watching my videos. Maybe because they are too long for them. Yeah.
But myself um I'm 36 that is why we are speaking almost equally like in at age.
How you pronounce the third letter or number? I'm not sure what people call it there with a stamp or what vibron especially the red buried vibronulus is called kalina. Yes. Kalina.
Kalina.
Kalina.
H is not pronounced. It's Kalina Cherona. Kalina is one of their most deeply cherished national symbols for love, beauty, motherhood, and resilience. Bobby, excellent. Excellent. If I were a teacher, I would put you a football. Okay. Okay. We already finishing here, guys.
free Z. I believe Z. If it's Z, then Z.
H by Thank you. Thank you. Uh I'm just watch statistic and uh a statistic like in YouTube studio shows that no any 18 old 18 year olds. So I said okay maybe I should uh do that dynamic shorts video and then younger audience will come here. So maybe yeah but uh I'm working in corporate Ukraine 9 to5. Yes.
And sometimes I'm not capable even to edit my long videos.
If video is missing, you know that Jane is doing her job. Jane is doing her job and after she will proceed of course to her hobby.
Yeah. Like in the song Redi Vibrum.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, thank you, Angel.
You are not old. We are the same age.
Like I'm 36 and people who are watching me according to YouTube statistic of course if they are not lying it's 40/50.
So we are equal like after the age of 25 I think age does not matter in understanding of the right and wrong things because all your maybe um overall experience of the world of the universe of the social life is already established maybe I don't know yeah guys so Petra Kifka Art is alive and breathing and evolving. But guys, it's very important to understand that Ukrainian culture is also great and Ukrainian culture is like unique and intuitive and for Petrifka village it's very important to protect and hold from the push back army of Russia because if we go to the deep state map guys let Let me share my screen because probably you do not see it.
Uh-huh. Okay.
They say disable all the pools and widgets.
Okay. Share my screen.
Mhm. Okay. So here we are in the deep state and Petraka is here if you see yes here our Petrafka and let's measure how many kilometers remain from the front line guys it will be very hard moment where is the ruler here is our petetroka somewhere Mhm. Okay.
This Okay.
This and it goes 198 kilometers.
198 kilometers.
So all this art can be in theory is under the threat. That is why it's important to support Ukraine like to keep our heritage alive.
Yeah.
Everything after 29 is just the anniversary of your 29th birthday. Yes.
My grandma uh was celebrating her birthday. She's 87 and she's saying I'm celebrating my 10th like I I'm celebrating my eight um 18 years old. So something like that. So eight times 18 or five I don't I don't know. I'm I'm so bad at math. Come on guys. Even at school on algebra and geometry classes, I was so bad that my mom had to pay for the tutor and tutor said, "Oh my gosh, I just I just try um her to pass this like to pass this class, but not only on good grades." Just check mark done because I was so bad. Okay.
Oh, she's adorable.
Uhhuh. So you see and I want to tell you not very good news because here is let's so this pavlo this is a big industrial center here in nepro regia and here however now it was renamed in shaktarski And guys, uh it was announced mandatory evacuation of people with children and women.
So here people are already evacuating.
They were given one month to do so.
You see uh it may be because of the artillery and drone strikes.
So And where is Pavlovat?
Nero is closed. That is why when I heard this news, I could not sleep till that 1 a.m. because I was terrified. I was terrified like gosh this is a Nepro region. I have been to Shaktars when I was uh working as a law consultant in the bank. I was going there in the court meeting. So I know this um urban settlement perfectly well.
I have been in Mija also here in the courtroom.
It's sad guys. It's sad.
Okay guys, I'm sorry for finishing on uh such sad tone. If you have any questions regarding it, it's just small Q&A 5 10 minutes for you and we will wrap up the session because as my mom have told me 15 minutes is more than enough for live stream because people cannot endure like two hour talking from my side only Joy can. Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, you made the tutor.
Ah, tutor uh got gray hair after our studies.
I remember how he tried to explain me that tangens and kotangans.
Jesus Christ. No, I'm not a technical person. I'm not a technical geek. I liked history, law and uh cultural lesson also. I have been going to the musical school. I can play piano. So I was uh like I was an artist inside inside here. Great stream. Thanks for the free education and a cultural lesson. Appreciate from California California. I apologize for the cur. No any worries. No any worries.
Administration is not people.
Oh my god. I'm seeing the chat and I'm seeing the uh image of myself. Um it goes with a delay. And this pool just directly in my forehead. I'm like a pirate. I'm like a pirate, you know.
It's it's insane.
Uh Rich Rick the Ukrainian has really long live stream. Uh I don't know. Uh maybe Rick's English is so good and uh he can be and he can engage people for a long time um to retain the engagement on the live stream. It's very nice for him.
I really admire such type of people. But me I don't know if you if you able and if you stay last for a long time for two hours with me I hope I think this is almost impossible. Uh yeah, at least play for I have no piano there. I used to have it in Kaminska, but after my mom give it away when I grew up, uh we were um she gave it away to the priest daughter who wanted to go to the musical school. So, and they didn't have a piano and um she gave it away and uh we were thinking about buying the Yamaha like electronic piano and it was after the quarantine quarantine time. I was thinking about it. I was thinking about the driver classes and piano but after war fullcale invasion hit and and this is what I'm doing since the day one of the invasion and unfortunately when the war is over when we rebuild I will leave YouTube and we'll start my piano lessons. Yeah, we learn mom g.
She did a charity. She gave it to the priest's daughter that wanted to to go to the piano lessons. All kids who have no piano at home have to go to the school physically and uh repeat their lessons to be prepared for the class.
But I was privileged. I had this small piano Ukraine. The name of the piano were Ukraine basically Ukraina.
So, and I was privileged to do it at home. But my neighbors my neighbors my neighbors were suffering. Sometimes they knocked the door or ring the bell and said, "Tell your daughter that we are sleeping. It's already 1000 p.m.
God's sake.
Oh yeah, by the way, I was sitting in a horse was mad time. Yeah, mommy.
Yeah. So, thank you for listening to this stream. I hope that you have no any other questions. I would appreciate if you proceed to description of this video and find PayPal a buy me a coffee page.
is not mandatory but in case you want to support the stream I'm still experimenting and I will be grateful. So Miss Yaia thank you and from all us to you and the rest of your community best wish and more from all of us here.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So also please write a comment what content do you want to see here because there are a lot of different types of the content. I know that some streamers they are only uh sometimes they are doing content by searching the news on the internet and commenting it or video and commenting it. Um maybe you willing to see such type of the content. I don't know. I don't know really. It's um these streams are basically for you so you could be updated by date literally saying thank you your Instagram link is that yes I know under the video or in the ahead of the YouTube page when you go to the main page of YouTube channel if there I notice it today. I will redo.
We just want to see you because you feel bad for me. Yeah.
So, bye-bye. Let God be with you. Have a safe night, guys.
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