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Scythians in The Iliad of Homer: ‘Most decent men alive’
Iliad, Book 13 Book 13 of the Iliad describes a crucial battle for the ships. It starts with the following lines: But once Zeus had driven...
Anacharsis: Scythian Frugality and Wisdom
Herodotus & Anacharsis The famous Greek historian Herodotus is the earliest author who mentioned Anacharsis. Here is what the Father of History wrote around 450...
Scythian Achilles? Achilleid of Statius and Famous Gorytos from Ukraine
https://youtu.be/Q2IFGWQJrrs Achilleid of Statius Achilleid is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth...
Richest Scythian Female Burial in Ukraine: Priestess-Queen in Griffins Headdress with...
https://youtu.be/GgNPqrBVy8U Side Tomb In May of 1971, archaeologists began clearing the Side Tomb of the Tovsta Mogyla Kurgan, which reached a depth of 6.2 m. It...
Ballet Puff Tutu was invented by Ukrainian Oscar-Winning costumier Barbara Karinska
“There is Shakespeare for literature, Karinska for costumes!” (George Balanchine) "When George Balanchine was asked by the Ford Foundation in 1963 what was the thing...
The Rus are Slavs, wrote Ibn Khordadbeh before 860 AD. What...
“The Rus, who belong to the Slavic race, go from the most remote regions of the country of the Slavs, on the coasts of...
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Vera Rich, renowned translator of Ukrainian Classic poetry
Vera Rich (born Faith Elizabeth Rich, 24 April 1936 – 20 December 2009) was a British poet, journalist, historian, and translator from Belarusian and Ukrainian. English speakers interested in...
The largest pre-WW1 plane – Sikorsky’s S-22 ‘Ilya Muromets’ – made...
Igor Sikorsky flew "Ilya Muromets" plane personally from Petersburg to his native Kyiv setting several world records. As it turns out though, the true...
Moxel, ‘race of pure pagans’ to the north of Rus described...
William of Rubruck was a Flemish Franciscan missionary and explorer. In 1248, he accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade. On...
“We have an eywitness to the missile launch” – MH17 Joint...
Yet another layer of evidence was supplied by Ukrainian villagers. "You have eyewitnesses to the missile launch," Pelley said to Westerbeke. "Is that correct?" "Yeah," Westerbeke...
Secret of Moscovy’s Extraordinary Expansion to current ‘Russia’ borders? Slavery
Harvard Professor Richard Pipes starts a new chapter of his book "Russia Under the Old Regime" with the following quote of Sigismund Herberstein, a...
Grasshoppers on Golden Pectoral from Tovsta Mogyla
The ends of the lower zone of the Pectoral terminate in the hounds coursing hares and grasshoppers confronting each other. Already Boris Mozolevsky, the...
Lord Byron’s one of the most famous poems devoted to Ukrainian...
Mazeppa is a narrative poem written by the English romantic poet Lord Byron in 1819. It is based on a popular legend about the early life of Ivan...
Film “Donbass” wins 2018 Prize at the Cannes Festival
Congratulations to Sergei Loznitsa on winning the Best Director Prize (Prix de la mise-en-scène) in the selection "Un Certain Regard" (a parallel competition for films...
Ukrainian Cossacks’ Resettling to Kuban by Catherine II was genocide, not...
So, how did Moscow reward the Ukrainian Cossacks for saving its Black Sea Fleet and defeating the Turks? A decade after the event, Dr....
Majority of Russians are Tartars fond of destruction, – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"I have said that Russians are disliked in Europe. That they are disliked, I believe, this no one will dispute. Inter alia we, all...
Kyiv Rus vs. Golden Horde: Catherine II’s curious details about the...
After Catherine II "the great" of Muscovy, died in 1796, among her papers, the 'Reflections on the Project of History of Russia' written in...