On March 1, 2023, for applicants for higher education of the first (bachelor's) level, the Head of the Department of Criminal Law and Procedure of the Faculty of Law, Doctor of Law, Professor Sofia Lykhova held a scientific and educational event on the topic "Arkhip Kuindzhi – an outstanding Ukrainian landscape painter".
The speaker spoke about one of the most unusual and outstanding landscape painters of the second half of the XIX century, who was called the "artist of light", and all because he knew how to convey the luminous fluxes so that they "came to life" and changed on the canvas. It was rumored that Kuinji used secret colors collected from the moonlight, that the master is a real wizard who does not write, but conjures with a brush.
"Today, the work of Arkhip Kuindzhi is admirable and puzzling. His canvases were bought by collectors and members of the imperial family, and queues were lined up at exhibitions to see new masterpieces, and now his canvases are being stolen from museums. On March 21, 2022, the occupiers destroyed the Mariupol Art Museum named after Arkhyp Kuindzhi, where his paintings were preserved, and the paintings were taken out," said Sofia Lykhova.
Students watched with interest a video material in which attention was paid to the most famous paintings of the artist and expressed their concern about the export of his works to the territory of the aggressor country.