Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko has welcomed the country's national revival.
"National revival is our holy task that we should fulfill for our next generations," he said in Baturyn in Chernihiv region on Saturday, while opening the reconstructed palace of the last Ukrainian Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky.
Yuschenko said that the National Museum of Ukrainian Revival was located in this palace.
He also said since the time of Kyrylo Rozumovsky, nobody had lived in the palace and that no funds had been allocated from the state budget for its reconstruction.
"After he received his education in Europe, Hetman Kyrylo Rozumovsky, under the conditions of Russian absolutism, wanted to build Ukraine as an independent state of European style," Yuschenko said, commenting on the hetman's merits.
The president thanked architects, historians, builders, restorers, and philanthropists for their assistance in reconstructing the palace.
