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Repin & Cossacks’ Reply World-famous painter Ilya Repin devoted 10 years to creating his painting The Reply of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan....

Leo the Deacon Byzantine court historian Leo the Deacon met Kyiv ruler Sviatoslav the Brave in person in 971 AD. Leo’s description of the famous...

Excavations In early 2021, archaeologists began excavating a huge mound south of Dnipro in central Ukraine; it was 7.5 meters high and 50 meters in...

Patroclus Burial In Chapter 23 of the Iliad, Homer describes the epic scenes of Patroclus’ burial, which Achilles organized for his friend. The funeral ritual included...

The Russian Betrayal 18 Sep, 1939 NY Times It is altogether probable that the Russian invasion of Poland, just at the moment when that country has been...

Chertomlyk Amphora The vase was discovered during the initial excavations of the Chertomlyk Royal Scythian Kurgan in Ukraine in 1862. The video on this channel...

Trishula is a trident, a divine symbol, commonly used as one of the principal symbols in Hinduism... The trishula has a number of interpretations in Hindu...

"Although not the largest biplanes ever, the biggest double-wing aircraft currently in common use is the Antonov An-2 / An-3, which has a wingspan of 18.8...

al-Masudi (c. 896–956), was a historian, geographer, and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the 'Herodotus of the Arabs'. A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic...

New perspective on Volodymir's ancestry and why he chose to be baptized in one of the most dangerous places for him, - Tauric Chersonesus...

Soviet Academician Borys Rybakov, in his monograph ‘Handicraft of Ancient Rus’, wrote in 1948: “Funeral rites of the Middle Dnieper region in the 9th-10th centuries...

Ukrainian Village House There is a hall, which is a combination storeroom and entrance.From there one goes into the kitchen, a white plaster room, with...

Pastel-hued St Andrew’s Church, at the top of a steep hill in the historic Podil district of Kyiv, has wonderful baroque architecture. But what really...

Instigating racial hatred, Moscow targeted Ukrainians and Jews in the first place. Its propaganda often portrayed the two nationalities together as the enemies of...

The "Gardariki, Ukraine" ebook has the details of its discovery. Sarcophagus of Yaroslav the Wise is described in it as well.

"In regard to the church music of these countries, it may be observed, that the chaunting of the Cossacks dilates the breast and clears...

Theodore de Pauly, a member of the newly founded Imperial Russian Geographical Society (founded 1845), was the latest in a line of ethnographers, seeking...

June 20th, 2017. Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, I'm going to speak in English. I'm going to speak English, because this is a subject...