Vasyl Tarnovsky: New Materials for the Biography

The article have been based on a little known and new documents about life and social activity Ukrainian patriot, philanthropist and museum worker V. V. Tarnovsky (1838–1899). He was born 180 years ago in Antonivka village of Poltavsky province. It was ascertain on a basis of correspondence Tarnovsky family and his friends: he got secondary education at Ennes boarding-school, studied at Main Engineer School in Sankt-Petersburg, and after than he graduated a historical philological deparment at Saint Volodymyr University in Kiev, but he hadn't final examinations. In 1857–1866 he was a manager in his father’s Estates, showed his enterprising abilities. V. V. Tarnovsky planed to build a separate house for his Museum, but it wasn’t sufficient money for it. It was be characterize the beginning of forming V. V. Tarnovsky Museum of Ukrainian antiques, its main departments and thematics. He collected T. G. Shevchenko Museum, M. I. Kostomarov Museum, P. O. Kulish Museum at the end of his life, he dreamed for Ukrainian Ossolineum. He created famous Kachanivka Park, it was his favourite work to plant a trees. V. V. Tarnovsky was a painter: he was the author of T. G. Shevchenko basrelief, Series decorative plates, his Museum exposition, drawing. The author consider that it necessary to publish V. V. Tarnovsky Museum of Ukrainian antiques Catalogues and Tarnovsky archive documents.