Анна Ярославна: київська князівна – королева Франції

Kilʹka rokiv tomu v rezydent͡siï Anny I͡Aroslavny u Sanlisi pid Paryz͡hem mene poprosyly stvoryty dyti͡achu knyz͡hku pro korolevu Annu - z harnymy mali͡unkamy, i shchob t͡se buly movby zapytanni͡a-vidpovidi pro z͡hytti͡a Anny I͡Aroslavny, z usima bilʹsh-mensh vidomymy faktamy ĭ lehendamy. "Ale i͡ak ïkh podavaty, koly nashi istoryky malo ne shchomisi͡at͡si͡a sprostovui͡utʹ odne odnoho? - rytorychno podumav i͡a. - Dei͡aki fakty mai͡utʹ duz͡he rizni traktuvanni͡a, i͡ak-ot zobraz͡henni͡a v Sofiï, rik narodz͡henni͡a, istorii͡a z I͡Evanhelii͡em i chymalo inshoho..." Pisli͡a pershykh ili͡ustrat͡siĭ znamenytoï Kateryny Shtanko stalo zrozumilo, shcho sukhuvatyĭ tekst hetʹ ne pasuvatyme do t͡sykh chutti͡evykh, vybahlyvykh kartynok. Istorii͡u treba bulo khoch trokhy oz͡hyvyty... Az͡h tut na litni kanikuly v Ukraïnu pryïkhala odna i͡una hosti͡a, i i͡a vyrishyv pokazaty ïĭ staryĭ Kyïv... A todi doli͡a zvela mene iz slavnoi͡u z͡hyvopysyt͡sei͡u Katerynoi͡u Kosʹi͡anenko, i knyz͡hka zbahatylasi͡a prechudovymy "litopysnymy" zobraz͡henni͡amy. Toz͡h teper pered vamy movby dva potoky opovidi - litopysnyĭ i kazkovyĭ

A few years ago, at the residence of Anna Yaroslavna in Senlis near Paris, I was asked to create a children's book about Queen Anne — with beautiful drawings, and that it was like questions and answers about the life of Anna Yaroslavna, with all the more or less known facts and legends. "But how to present them when our historians refute each other almost every month? — I thought rhetorically.-some facts have very different interpretations, such as the image in Sofia, the year of birth, the story of the Gospel, and much more..."After the first illustrations of the famous Ekaterina Shtanko, it became clear that the dry text would not fit these sensual, whimsical pictures at all. The story needed to be revived at least a little... And then a young guest came to Ukraine for the summer holidays, and I decided to show her old Kiev... And then fate brought me together with the glorious painter Ekaterina Kosyanenko, and the book was enriched with wonderful "Chronicle" images. So now you have two streams of narration in front of you — Chronicle and fairy-tale