Mykola Kostomarov met Alina Krahelska after he defended his master’s thesis in Kharkiv and started teaching history at Kyiv Classical Boarding School. Alina was his disciple. Find out about the story of the famous public figure and founder of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius Mykola Kostomarov, of his love and arrest on his wedding day in the first part of the film “The Dream of Alina Kostomarova” in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Vasyl Viter, Halyna Kryvorchuk, Natali Sopit
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
- Sound Oleg Golovoshkin, Matvij Tshebyshevsky
- Editor Arsenii Bortnyk
- Make up Janina Berezutska
- Costume LAURA ASHLEY ™
- Music De Wolfe Music
- Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
- Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
- Producer Vasyl Viter
The shooting took place at:
– at the Chernihiv Oblast Historical Museum named after V.V. Tarnоvskyi
– at the National Historical and Cultural Reserve “Kachanivka”
– in the estate of Mykola Kostomarov in Didivtsi
We used:
– the private archive of Oleksii Savon
– the “Memoirs on Mykola Kostomarov by Countess Catherine Junge, Nadiia Bilozerska, Alina Kostomarova” by Yurii Pinchuk
– the fragments of the film “Taras Shevchenko. Fraternity”



