A new home for Lesya Ukrainka

A new garden outside the main entrance of the Murray Library is now home to the 16-foot bronze statue of Ukrainian writer and poet Lesya Ukrainka. Born Larysa Petrivna Kosach-Kvitka in 1871, Ukrainka was one of Ukraine’s best-known poets and writers and the foremost female writer of Ukrainian literature. As a feminist in the late [...]