Ukrainian musician, master of medieval and folk musical instruments, lyre player, bagpiper.
Biography.
Born on June 27, 1981 in the village of Bubniv, Lokachi district, Volyn region. His father is Stepan Ishchuk (tragically died in 1991), his mother is Maria Ishchuk (22.06.1956 - 09.10.2020).
In 1985, Viktor Ishchuk moved to the village of Pidhaitsi, Lutsk district. He studied piano at a music school, and then, in 1992-1994, at an art school.
Later he became interested in paleontology, in 1992 he conducted excavations in Volyn, based on the materials of which he defended his thesis at the Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University (1998-2003).
Viktor Ishchuk
On February 23, 2001, during a knightly festival held in Lutsk Castle, he became interested in antiquity and joined the movement of reenactors of the culture of Celtic peoples (Scotland, Ireland). That same year, he decided to "become a knight, that is, a man who will spend his life adapting to the clear charter of a medieval warrior: to serve God and the state." Since then, Knight Silver has begun lecturing at schools and even churches. The most important development in the study of the Middle Ages was the study of ancient musical instruments, whose melodies inspired the knights and reflected their worldview. His aptitude for crafts quickly turned Viktor Ishchuk into a talented craftsman with a very wide range of musical instruments: from simple flutes to complex wheeled lyres, harps, and rare instruments from different nations (from Scandinavia to Mongolia).
Among Silver's customers are such well-known personalities as Nino Katamadze, Andriy Lyashuk, and former chairman of the Lutsk City Council Bohdan Shyba. Nina Matvienko has a bagpipe and a lamentation by Viktor Ishchuk in her personal collection.
Among Viktor Ishchuk's works are also exact copies of instruments from the collections of the Lutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, which allowed him to explore the sound of ancient exhibits through modern copies. In particular, we are talking about an exact copy of the lyre played by the last Volyn lyre player Ivan Vlasiuk.
He starred in a movie based on Mykola Martyniuk's book Under the Walls of the Stronghold about Lutsk Castle and Danylo Halytskyi. In particular, he played a musician in the movie and is also the author of the original soundtrack of the film.
Family.
Viktor Ishchuk's family has well-known defenders of Ukrainian statehood. Viktor Ishchuk's great-grandfather, Matviy Danyliuk, participated in the Battle of Kruty in 1918 and became the last veteran of the UPR Army and a participant in the Battle of Kruty, who lived the longest and died in 1994 at the age of 103. Matviy Danyliuk is the only participant in the Battle of Kruty who survived to see Ukraine's independence. Viktor's father, Stepan Oleksiyovych, helped demolish the Lenin monument in Lutsk in 1991. His younger brother Volodymyr Ishchuk died near Ilovaisk in 2014 and was awarded the Order "For Courage", III class (September 29, 2014, posthumously).
