Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine

Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze noted that Vasyl Vyshyvanyi was one of the heroes who had laid the foundations of Ukraine’s independence of today: “For me personally, it does not matter whether he was descended from the Kyivan princes, or had Austrian or Ukrainian roots. It is important for me that Ukraine was for him above all. It is important that the Ukrainian idea can capture a person so much that he is ready to die it”.
 
The Chair of the Committee thanked the organizers and initiators of the monument. The square at 39, Ilyenko Street is also planned to be named after Vasyl Vyshyvany.

Sculptors Mykhailo Horlovy and Oleksandr Furman worked on the bust of Vasyl Vyshyvany, and the architectural solution was of the creative workshop “Architecton”. The creation of the monument united the efforts of a large number of organizations and patrons: “World Vyshyvanka Day”, “Music Battalion”, “National Museum of Ukraine”, “PanEurope Ukraine”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, historical club “Holodnyy Yar” and others.

Archduke Wilhelm Franz Joseph Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen came from the Austrian imperial Habsburg family. The name Vasyl Vyshyvany was given to him by Ukrainian soldiers during the First World War. Vasyl became famous for his military and diplomatic talents, poetry and love for Ukraine. He was a colonel of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. The Archduke fought for the independence of Ukraine. In 1947, Wilhelm Habsburg was arrested as a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists underground. Vasyl Vyshyvany died in Lukyanivska prison on August 18, 1948.