Nil Khasevych
But even in 1931 his painting Laundry was awarded with the Vatican prize, and the next year, his portrait of Hetman Ivan Mazepa won the Warsaw Academy diploma.
In the early 1930s, Nil Khasevych exhibited his work in art salons of Lviv, Prague, Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles.
His portraits of Prince Volodymyr the Great, bookplate of the president of UNR in exile Andriy Livytskyi, and the series of works in the anthology Woodcuts was highly appreciated by experts.
Nil Khasevych was an active public and political figure, and a member of the Volhynia Ukrainian association [uk] (VUO) from 1935.
He also worked as an artist and editor, preparing illustrations for satirical magazines of the UPA "Ukrainian pepper" and "Horseradish", designed the pappus and leaflets for underground publication, and released an album of caricatures.
His portfolio of the war and post-war era — 150 woodcuts, which was issued overseas in albums as "Volhynia in the fight" and "Graphics in UPA bunkers" during 1950 — 1952.
In 1941, he became a member of the Labor Union of Lviv, Ukrainian Fine Arts and worked with the Rivne Magazine "Volhynia" with Ulas Samchuk.
In June 1948, the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR) introduced awards for illegals, which earned them with a personal courage.
In 1951 an order came from the capital of Soviet Union "to suppress the anti-Soviet activities" (Russian: пресечь антисоветскую деятельность) of Khasevych, because the engraving was presented to the delegates of the United Nations General Assembly and to foreign diplomats, and then was published in the aforementioned book "Graphics in UPA bunkers".
To search for the artist, the authorities established an inter-oblast task force, led by GB (Russian: ГБ (государственная безопасность), lit.
Secret police picked up the trail of "Zot" several times - once, in Lviv, through "citizen M", who hid in his place a personal archive of Nil Khasevych.
The bunker (Ukrainian: криївка, romanized: kryyivka) was equipped for homesteading, with the hidden entrance to the cave located in a barn near the wood.
Teodor Gladkov's book, With shield and sword (Russian: Со щитом и мечом), published in 1988 in Lviv by the Kameniar publishing house [uk], gives details of the death of the warrior-artist: According to another text,[citation needed] Nil Khasevych shot himself with his personal weapons, along with his two bodyguards — Vyacheslav Antoniuk — "Matthew" and Anton Melnychuk — "Hnat", burning all important documents beforehand.
Julius Holovatsky [uk], Ukrainian writer, member of the national liberation movement for the independence of Ukraine and political prisoner, wrote an essay, "Barrel", in 1956, which was published in parts throughout 1996 — 1998, which also described the death of Nil Khasevych: World War II decimated virtually all his relatives: his father and his younger brother, Anatoly were killed, and his older brother, Fedir died in a Soviet concentration camp, Beloborodovo, near Tomsk.
There are Nil Khasevych Street [uk] in Kostopil, Lviv, Lutsk, Rivne, Kovel, Volodymyr-Volynskyi and Pervomaisk of Mykolaiv Oblast.
In 1992, on the death spot of Nil Khasevych, in Suhsvtsy of Rivne Raion, a memorial sign was installed by the artist Valeriy Voytovych [uk].
The SBU in Volyn Oblast, in the early 1990s,gave a selection of original woodcuts of Nil Khasevych preserved in the archives to a regional ethnographic museum in Lutsk.
The official website of Kostopolsky RDA offers two tours related to the life and work of Nil Khasevych — "Nil Khasevych — artist-fighter" (introduces the birthplace of graphic artist) and "Ways of Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (introduces the rebel movement in Kostopil region, including his native village).
184-VIII of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from February 11, 2015, set the celebration of 110 years since the birth of graphic artist at the state level.
