Poet Dmitriy Lutsenko`s Museum 
Address: 3-a, Cenerala Potapova Str., Kiev (at school 197 building)
Closed on Saturday and Sunday
The Museum, situated in the building of school 197 of Svyatoshin district, tells us about the famous author of words of the famous Kiev anthem “How not to love you, my Kiev”. The school was opened in 1970. In 28 years it was named after Dmitriy Lutsenko and his Museum was founded there.
The opening took place on May 19, 1998. Why here? The poet’s wife Tamara Ivanovna worked at the school for a long time. His son taught English there. And Dmitriy Emelyanovich personally visited the school for many times.
The Museum hall seems lit up with the poet’s smile shining from his portrait, painted by painter A. Pisarenko. All the exhibits of the Museum were carefully preserved and passed to the school by Lutsenko`s wife. 9 big plane tables show the whole poet’s life and creative work. The first plane table is dedicated to Dmitriy Lutsenko`s family, his childhood and schooldays, his school, his native village Berezovaya Rudka. The second exposition is dedicated to the poet’s military way: here we can see him as a border guard at Bury outpost, submachine gunner who went through the Kursk Bulge and Stalingrad Battle. Newspaper “For Victory” of 1943, containing Lutsenko`s poems, is the pride of the collection. The third stand, devoted to Lutsenko`s family and children is especially cordial. He went through terrible sorrow in his life - early death of his dearly loved daughter Larisa. His collection “Endless Sonata” included many songs written after the hard loss.
The whole creative development is placed on the following four stands. 63 composers created music for his songs which are sung out by such singers as D. Gnatyuk, A. Mokrenko, D. Petrinenko, N. Matvienko, B. Stashkiv, the choir of bandura players “Dumka”, the national choir named after G.Veryovka. Dmitriy Lutsenko created over 300 songs. The soul of the Ukrainian people, his small rural Motherland and beloved Kiev is in them.
Excursions in the Museum are held in English, Ukrainian and Russian.
