Here he designed some of the most notable pictures of Ukrainian silent cinema. In 1927, working with the best directors of the day, he designed the following: Fauvst Lopatynsky’s Vasylyna, Hryhorii Hrycher-Cherykover’s Sorochyntsi Fair, Mykhailo Shor’s Gonorrhea, as well as In Pursuit of Happiness by Marko Tereshchenko, and Boots and The Whims of Catherine II by Petro Chardynin, and finally, Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s Zvenyhora. In the last film, Krychevsky needed to depict several different epochs from Ukrainian history: the conquest of Kyiv by Varangian Princes of the North, the Kyivan Rus, the Haidamaky, and the national liberation movement of 1917—1922. Krychevsky also served as art consultant for the wellacclaimed psychological masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema, Two Days, directed by Heorhii Stabovyi.
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chevsky participated in the First All-Ukrainian Art Exhibition and started working on the design for the Taras Shevchenko House in the Kyiv City Center. He had discovered the building’s location at the beginning of the 1920s, later procuring it for the purposes of a museum. In 1928 Krychevsky created a design for a four volumes Ukrainian
Василь Кричевський. Ескіз до фільму Олександра Довженка Звенигора (1928)
Poetry Anthology: 400 portraits and the cover, altogether. A few years later the compilation was removed from store bookshelves and all copies destroyed. 1928 was the year that Krychevsky also worked on the films Storm, by Pavlo Dolyna, Dzhalma, by Arnold Kordium, and Gossip, by Georgian director Ivan Perestiani, who had also worked occasionally at the Odessa Film Studios. In 1929, Krychevsky set two films: a tendentious propaganda piece, Thistle, directed by Pavlo Dolyna, and a nuanced psychological drama by Arnold Korduim entitled Wind Across the Threshold. The film told the story of the wasting of Ukrainian villages during the construction of the Dnieper Hydo-Electric Facility (DniproHes). That year Krychevsky was busy
Vasyl Krychevsky. Drawing to Oleksandr Dovzhenko's film Zvenyhora (1928)