I am sitting in a completely empty apartment waiting for my American visa. I have misgivings as to how it will go. ... I am utterly and horribly alone!

It will be quite an undertaking to carry on all the work in America. Essentially, I am a great man, a rarity, as it were. I can't quite believe it myself, however, and that is why I struggle against playing the role of a great man.

Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska, S.S.M.I.

Podwołoczyska , then in Galicia, Austria-Hungary

Pogar, Starodub Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire

Polish Composers, Jewish composers, Dodecaphony, Lwów, Lviv, Twelve-tone technique

Ukrainian cellist, composer, music educator and music critic

Deputy commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Flying Regiment

At the action against Dmytro Tabachnyk, 2012

village of Adamivka, Berezanskyi Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR

Nikolayevka, Feodosiya uyezd, Taurida Governorate

The first correct description of the causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis

General Motherhouse of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, Rome, Italy

Chemerynci, Peremyshliany district, Lviv Region, Ukraine

Shliakhnyntsi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria

Denis Stoff performing with Asking Alexandria at Rock Am Ring festival 2015

American scenic designer for Broadway/Yiddish theatre

Podwołoczyska ,then in Galicia, Austria-Hungary

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR

Миро́н Богда́нович Марке́вич (Ukrainian)

Вакарчук, Святослав Іванович (Ukrainian)

Dancer, Educator, Judge for Ukraine's Got Talent

Ган, Елена Петровна; von Hahn, Helena Petrovna

The patient feels that he has made outstanding discoveries. Gradually over a period of many years he has explained the failure of his ideas in becoming universally accepted by the elaboration of psychotic thinking. "The Rockerfellows are against me." "The airplanes flying over prison are sent by the Air Force to encourage me."

Chairman of Shevchenko Scientific Society

ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet teacher

Kornilenko playing for Zenit St. Petersburg in 2009

I am in Lewisburg. I am calm, certain in my thoughts, and doing mathematics most of the time. I am kind of "above things," fully aware of what is up. Do not worry too much about me, though anything might happen. I know, Pete, that you are strong and decent. At first I thought that you should not visit me here. I do not know. With the world in turmoil I now feel that a boy your age should experience what is coming his way – fully digest it without getting a "belly ache," so to speak, nor getting off the right track of truth, fact, honesty, fair play, and being above board – never a sneak ... .
My factual position in the case as well as in the world of science of today does not permit me to enter the case against the Food and Drug Administration, since such action would, in my mind, imply admission of the authority of this special branch of the government to pass judgment on primordial, pre-atomic cosmic orgone energy. I, therefore, rest the case in full confidence in your hands.

Deputy General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Forensic facial reconstruction by Sergei Nikitin.

WABBA European Bodybuilding Championships

Russian-Ukrainian printmaker and painter.

Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR

E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute, International Association of Science Academies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

* , née Pink
* Elsa Lindenberg
* Ilse Ollendorf
* Aurora Karrer

Evgeny O. Paton — professor at Kiev Polytechnic Institute, 1910's

When Reich entered the [Ambulatorium's] conference room after a full day at the clinic, his relative youth vanished. He spread an electrifying energy all his own; his deep-set eyes, wavy hair and high forehead of the rebellious German intellectual barely tempered by the military mannerisms of a Prussian army official. Under his leadership the analysts developed not only path-breaking clinical protocols but also attended to the more mundane aspects of running a clinic.

Vystupovichi, Ovruch Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Сяргей Аляксандравіч Карніленка (Belarusian)

*President: Green Cross Ukraine
*President: Dni Ukrainy

Semenovsky Regiment Garrison, Saint-Petersburg

The moment he starts to speak, not at the lectern, but walking around it on cat's paws, he is simply enchanting. In the Middle Ages, this man would have been sent into exile. He is not only eloquent, he also keeps his listeners spellbound by his sparking personality, reflected in his small, dark eyes.

Certificate of Honor from the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Vladimir Ivashko
Владимир Ивашко
Володимир Івашко

Died. Wilhelm Reich, 60, once-famed psychoanalyst, associate and follower of Sigmund Freud, founder of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa; where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" , a telephone-booth-size device that supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, and could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer, and impotence.

Ukrainian culturologist, social activist

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Tatarovshina near Oster, Chernigovskaya guberniya, Russian Empire

Economist Paul A. Baran as he appeared in the late 1950s.

civic and political activist, writer, translator, statesman

As if struck by a blow, one suddenly recognizes the scientific futility, the biological senselessness, and the social noxiousness of views and institutions, which until that moment had seemed altogether natural and self-evident. It is a kind of eschatological experience so frequently encountered in a pathological form in schizophrenics. I might even voice the belief that the schizophrenic form of psychic illness is regularly accompanied by illuminating insight into the irrationalism of social and political mores.

social-democratic club, Hromada, TUP, USDRP

Yuliya Sapunova (after her husband, Sapunov, from 2008 to the divorce in 2010)

Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna

* Distinguished Scientist and Technician or Artist of Ukrainian SSR
* Order of the Red Labor Banner
* Stalin prize
* Order of the Red Star
* Order of Lenin
* Hero of Socialist Labour
* Order of the Patriotic War

Mykolaiv, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire

Volodymyr Vynnychenko Signature 1917.png

— Religious studies scholar Robert Ellwood, 2005.

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR

PolishComposers,Jewish composers,Dodecaphony,Lwów,Lviv,Twelve-tone technique

* Order of the October Revolution
* Order of the Great Patriotic War, 1st Class
* Order of the Red Banner of Labour
* Order of the Red Star

Ukrainian writer, ethnographer, playwright, composer, musicologist, and bandurist.

Head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee

Mukachevo, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,

Tashkent Military Hospital, Tashkent Medical Institute

United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Perelman at the Odessa International Film Festival in 2011

*Order of Merit (Ukraine)
*Honored Art Worker of Ukraine
*Person of the year (Ukraine)

Tatarovshina near Oster, Chernigovskaya guberniya

What is the connection between these people, other than having the same name? What is the significance of the picture?

engineer, welding researcher and pioneer

Bukinik, Mikhail Yevseyevich; Bukinik, Mikhail Evseevich

Hrystyna Kots-Hotlib in national costume at Miss Universe 2009

Honorary Mention from the President of Ukraine

All the expenses and labor had to be provided by the [Orgone Institute] Press. A huge truck with three to help was hired. I felt like people who, when they are to be executed, are made to dig their own graves first and are then shot and thrown in. We carried box after box of the literature.
We have here a Dr. Reich, a worthy but impetuous young man, passionately devoted to his hobby-horse, who now salutes in the genital orgasm the antidote to every neurosis. Perhaps he might learn from your analysis of K. to feel some respect for the complicated nature of the psyche.

National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame, 1994

Frolenkova with former partner Kasalo at the 2011 European Championships

(16th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland)

Dvirkivschyna, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

"[Blavatsky] talked incessantly in a guttural voice, sometimes wittily and sometimes crudely. She was indifferent to sex yet frank and open about it; fonder of animals than of people; welcoming, unpretentious, scandalous, capricious and rather noisy. She was also humorous, vulgar, impulsive and warm-hearted, and didn't give a hoot for anyone or anything."

medals for brain tissue samples at All-Russian Manufacturing Exhibition , Vienna World Exposition (1873)

"The underlying theme among these diverse topics [in Isis Unveiled] is the existence of an ancient wisdom-religion, an ageless occult guide to the cosmos, nature and human life. The many faiths of man are said to derive from a universal religion known to both Plato and the ancient Hindu sages. The wisdom-religion is also identified with Hermetic philosophy as "the only possible key to the Absolute in science and theology" . Every religion is based on the same truth or "secret doctrine," which contains "the alpha and omega of universal science" . This ancient wisdom-religion will become the religion of the future ."

Krasnyi Kut, near Liplyave, Poltava Governorate

"[Blavatsky was] one of the most significant, controversial, and prolific of modern esotericists... It is more than evident that, whatever one thinks of the more flamboyant aspects of this remarkable and many-sided woman, she possessed a keen intellect and a wide-ranging vision of what occultism could be in the modern world."

Khnychenkova performing with Mark Magyar in 2010

Vitalina, Andriy, Sophia, Khrystyna, Taras

Peter Borovsky, wearing the uniform of a medical officer in the Imperial Russian Army — at the age of 32, at the period when his researches on oriental sore were being conducted.

"Blavatsky's writings garnered the materials of Neoplatonism, Renaissance magic, Kabbalah, and Freemasonry, together with ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology and religion, joined by Eastern doctrines taken from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta to present the idea of an ancient wisdom handed down from prehistoric times."

Maryna Poroshenko posing with her husband Petro on the cover of the June 2014 edition of the Ukrainian magazine Viva!

Badge “Outstanding worker of Education of Ukraine”

Lysenko Kyiv Specialized Music Boarding School

First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine

Chief of the General Staff - Ukraine Armed Forces

Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine

The question, "What is Life?" lay behind everything I learned. ... It became clear that the mechanistic concept of life, which dominated our study of medicine at the time, was unsatisfactory ... There was no denying the principle of creative power governing life; only it was not satisfactory as long as it was not tangible, as long as it could not be described or practically handled. For, rightly, this was considered the supreme goal of natural science.
He was a nineteenth-century scientist; he wasn't a twentieth-century scientist. He didn't practice science the way scientists do today. He was a nineteenth-century mind who came crashing into twentieth-century America. And boom!

Romanian academic, writer and politician

Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR

Rizatdinova at the 2013 Valentine World Cup

Dancer, Educator, Judge forUkraine's Got Talent

— Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2008.
— Historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2004.

Signature of Miachel Korybut Wiśniowiecki.PNG

Elena Ferafontova, Dorota Siudek, Mariusz Siudek

* Member of Parliament
* Statesman
* Mathematician
* Scholar
* Diplomat
* Freemason

Bykanov competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics

(18th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland)
(14th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland)

This German immigrant described himself as the Associate Professor of Medical Psychology, Director of the Orgone Institute, President and research physician of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation and discoverer of biological or life energy. A 1940 security investigation was begun to determine the extent of Reich's communist commitments. A board of Alien Enemy Hearing judged that Dr. Reich was not a threat to the security of the U.S. In 1947, a security investigation concluded that neither the Orgone Project nor any of its staff were engaged in subversive activities or were in violation of any statute within the jurisdiction of the FBI.

Chemerynci village, Peremyshliany district, Lviv Region, Ukraine