Cossack Country-Ukraine as seen by Syrian chronicler Paul of Aleppo in 1654
Paul of Aleppo (1627 - 1669) was a Syrian archdeacon, traveler, and writer. He accompanied his father, Patriarch Makarios III of Antioch, on a journey from Aleppo...
Cossacks’ Songs
The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus Ensemble & the Canadian Bandurist Capella joined together for the first time with their wonderful «Kobzar's Christmas» concert of Ukrainian Christmas music. The...
Boxing star Vasyl Lomachenko took traditional Ukrainian Cossacks’ Hopak dance classes for 4 years
Even as he boxed, Vasyl also played soccer and hockey and wrestled. At 10, he began traditional Ukrainian folk dance. It wasn't Vasyl's idea, prancing...
Odesa, the craddle of Israeli culture, enjoys a Jewish Rennaissance
The history of Odessa is also the history of Tel Aviv. Long before the State of Israel was founded, the Jewish community in...
Ilya Repin was born on August 5, 1844 in Ukraine. Story behind his most...
On 26 July 1878, he did his first pencil drawing of the merry Zaporozhians drafting their defiant letter to the sultan. Although Repin was...
In August of 1937, Moscow demolished 12th-century St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, but...
St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery is situated on the central hill of Kyiv overlooking the Dnieper River and the northern part of Ukraine's capital. It was...
Ukrainian who discovered X-rays but didn’t receive credit for it: Ivan Puluj
As Noble Prize's official webpage describes it: "On the evening of 8 November 1895, Röntgen was in his laboratory studying how cathode-ray tubes emit...
Yin-Yang symbol was created in more northern area than China?
The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...
In antiquity, Ukrainian Snake island had Colossal statue of Apollo on it that was...
The authors of a recent article in The Daily Beast shared an opinion that according to the legends, "Achilles supposedly went mad and killed...
‘Harbingers of the Resurrection’ by Nikolai Ge
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