GRANTEE
My great-grandfather Myron Vasylchenko (1898–1984) was a land surveyor (землемір), and collectivization, i.e. the seizure of land from peasants, forced him to look for a change of profession—first he became a forester, and later a teacher and school principal. He wrote memoirs about his life in the Kyiv region in the 19th and 20th centuries, including accounts of life in Ukraine before and after the revolution of 1917, liberation struggles, Holodomor, World War II, etc. Nowadays, earth-shattering changes are occurring in the world again, being accompanied by a redistribution of borders, meanings, property, and human rights. One such example is the war that Russia has been waging against my country. Planning to combine two temporal dimensions, my great-grandfather’s and my own, I will work on a set of stories which will hopefully be included in the self-titled book Землемір.