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I too wanted to be Vakula!

26 April, 00:00

Kyiv recently hosted the II specialized exhibit “Master Sword.” It featured displays from the Lviv History Museum, the Archaeology Museum at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences, and a private museum owned by the Zaporizhia-based company Diana-92.

Among the items on display were old swords and modern ones made by Ukrainian armories, workshops, metalworking enterprises, and gunsmiths. The exhibit included a competition for the best artistic weaponry “Golden Hands Master 2006” and several blacksmithing master classes, including Basic Tools and Blacksmithing Operations, Making Knives: Thermal Treatment of Steels, Blacksmith Welding: Damask Steel, and Making Axes. Visitors could watch small miracles being worked by Bohdan Popov on a small square in front of the exhibition center. There were demonstrations with a whip, one sword, two swords, and a spear, as well as mock tournaments. Inquisitive visitors were allowed to try on suits of armor.

Unfortunately, the organizers refused to be interviewed by The Day, but their press release states that the exhibit focused on custom-made ornamented cold steel, old swords, handmade accessories, old suits of armor, and antique military miniatures. Indeed, the interest showed by the male population of the capital was even more amazing than the swords and curved sabers that could hardly be lifted. The exhibits were not all that exciting; you can find more interesting ones in any history museum, and more of them, with the added bonus of a historical background. But the man in the street probably finds visiting a museum much more difficult than a well advertised exhibit. Master Sword swarmed with visitors, who bought 7,000 tickets over a period of several days.

It is probably true that all men secretly dream of war. But other dreams were being voiced on the square in front of the exhibition center. Watching Bohdan Popov skillfully going about his work, all the representatives of the “stronger” sex suddenly remembered that they too once wanted to master the blacksmith’s trade, and some still do.

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